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by scrollaway 4301 days ago
The reviews on there look fine to me. The one guy is being a bit paranoid and dickish but you can never please everyone.

Sure, you got a few bad reviews out of it, but unless it continues for several days I wouldn't worry too much about it. FWIW I haven't looked at the app or its source code but I wouldn't call this "cyber bullying".

Have you considered releasing the source code on github and linking to it so people can easily take a look and see for themselves?

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It's true. I own a company that makes casual games. We had people yelling so loudly that the game cheated and dealing hands wasn't random that we actually posted the source code. It doesn't mean anything - loud people more often want to hear their own loudness than anything.

We have millions of players, but the most vocally aggressively negative - those that just bash us as a company and as liars non-stop have been playing our games for years. YEARS.

You will never get away from trolls in any industry that has public reviews. Ask any restaurateur on Yelp, anyone with an app on any App Store, etc. It's absurd but just part of the deal at this point in time.

What strikes me most is that the highly vocal, polarizing negative reviewers are mostly filled with false information.
Happy to release the code. But will take some time from my end. Thanks for this suggestion.

Not sure myself about the term "Cyber Bullying", but I used this word because I got:

1). more than 20 1-ratings (You cannot see these 20-25 negative ratings as there are were no text reviews written with it.)

2). few complaints+emails on the same day.

3). And my app rating came down from 5 to 4, thats a huge setback on the competitive end. (Lost the app's repo which took an year to build)

4). Few comments which have been cross-upvoted so all new / old users sees them on top. And my reply down-voted by the same group that it was removed completely by Chrome. Today I had to reply on it for the third time. And I do not have bandwidth to keep refreshing page every few hours.

The developer had already posted the source code on GitHub back in March 16 2014 and has not pushed anything since. Somewhere between March and September he added Inspectlet, Google Analytics and Double Click to his local copy and uploaded it Chrome Web Store.

I came across this junk by chance. I needed a note-taking app. Simple as that. I became suspicious after I noticed the websocket connection to herokuapp.com — he's logging client IP ... no sh*t.