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In todays episode of "Plex enshittifies" Plex employee breaks ToS.
Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/fake-reviews-on-play-store-by-plex-staff/917736
Well this could also be fake, I can easily create a google account with his name and profile picture and post the review.
It could. But the co-founder and staff have replied on the thread without addressing it being false. Feel like they would have called it out being fake if it truly was.
Read the source.
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😂 exactly
From the forum post:
Just because he works at Plex doesn’t necessarily make his review fake.
Yikes the copium here. Reviews are meant for users of the app, this is so incredibly biased and in bad taste. I have had my shittiest companies ask us to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor. The shittiest ones.
Maybe their big redesign that no one asked for isn't doing well, and this is a self preservation thing, to get more people to download it. Maybe CEO asked them to. Maybe they're just over eager. All are excuses and not valid reasons to give a rating on your own company's product
I haven't reviewed any of the games I'm in the credits for. Mostly cause I haven't played or owned them.
Somewhat related, I recall Michael Bell talking about his experience with Soul Reaver, shortly after release. The voice of Raziel couldn't get past the jump part of the tutorial and just gave up
While I don’t think it’s a great look, employees can be customers/users too. I can’t imagine a Plex employee wouldn’t actually use Plex either. They should have disclosed that they’re an employee in the review.
Yes, but since he is working on the product itself, it's heavily biased.
He can use the app without leaving a review.
He can be working on whatever unrelated part and just be excited about the product that his company makes. It's not impossible
I bet someone got it in their head that slow reviews were the reason the company wasn’t meeting a goal, and they asked everyone to contribute.
And of course the twats locked the thread.
Daily reminder, Plex fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software.
Conflict of intrest
Dude just could have said something like,"Hey, I'm a developer of Plex and have really enjoyed my experience using it. Let me know if you'd like to see something added/fixed."
This would've been the best response. Leaving 5 star review on your company's product + signalling transparency and good communication with costumers? One stone two birds.
That plex thread is a shitshow
I fucking hate how I can't listen to my music libraries in the main app now. I have a separate profile for other people in the house and I can't switch profiles with plexamp.
lol, did he have the AI bros in marketing write it too? If they’re gonna do this they could at least write their own bullshit…