Ask HN: Is there anything you can do against Play store 1 star review attack?

2 points

6 years ago

I've built an app in a highly competitive market, and everytime my app rise to +4 stars, we get around 5 to 7 1 star reviews the same day - It's always a variant of the 2 same messages: "Beware, this app is a scam" - "the developer hacks your data"

I always "report as spam" on the Play store, but Google has never removed any of the reviews. I'm kinda desperate, it takes a lot of time to get genuine reviews, and only one attack of the kind to crash below the 3.5 mark

And ofc, as the review system is different on Apple, my rating on the App store is 4.5, which I'm really happy about

Any tricks against 1 star reviews attack ? Is there anything to do or should I just accept it ?

Original question on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/comments/goludt/is_there_anything_you_can_do_against_play_store_1/