[everfree]

There are lots of financial incentives for people to review bomb the app in both directions. Is there any evidence that it wasn't third parties manipulating the reviews both times in both directions?

I'm imagining a second thread on a different forum, nearly identical to the thread you linked and just as ideological, with a title like "After Circle was unfairly review-bombed with 1 Star reviews by haters, our community has added 55+ Five Star reviews in 3 days."

[danaos]

You have a point. If I remember correctly this event is related to the SegWit drama. Circle was not among the biggest supporters of the upgrade.