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>In this case, when someone is being aggressive, I'd just ignore it. Let the market have their say on which product is the better solution without getting into public conflict over it.

While that is nice and all, if someone is actively messing with your rating, that can negatively affect your product from growing regardless of the quality.

There are many example of past products where the "lesser" product won out due to simple weird things like the above. You can't just ignore this stuff all the time. Bigger examples of this happen a lot in tech. Where a large company tries to buy out an idea and if they refuse, they simply make a similar product and then "trash rate" the other product with larger marketing budget and kill it off.

What do you do when you can't ignore it?