Weather Channel posting fake shill reviews to their App

It's painfully obvious that the Weather Channel is posting fake shill reviews to their App. Just a week ago they had a horrible rating in the App store. Then they released a new version a few days ago that is not any better than the last one and they suddenly have 1000 5 star reviews. Look at the 5 star reviews. You can clearly see they are not like typical 5 star reviews found on the App Store.
They have been doing this for a while. A couple of moths ago they released a new version and promptly received 800 1 star reviews. Then, overnight, they received 1500 5 star reviews without the app even being updated. They are all short one line reviews that say "Love this app!" or "Can't live without it." And they come in by the thousands always immediately after they go into negative rating territory.
Some of the reviews are so obviously staged. Anyone who has used this App knows it used to be much better and has progressively gotten worse over the past year. Maybe TWC should spend time fixing their app rather than trying to game the rating system.

A lot of developers will fake good reviews for there app. I have noticed this on enormous amounts of apps. Like half of the time if they get so many complained reviews they will delete all the bad reviews and start over and keep the good reviews. I have posted a lot of suggestions and complaints on many apps and they never get posted. Even when they were suggestions and ideas. Half of the developers don't want anyone's opinions, and think there work doesn't need improvements. Just like if your post for reviews ain't working no more. They stop your postings before the 12 hours it takes for your review to go through. I look at it this way, you should only review an app if it's garbage to give other people a heads up to not download or purchase the app. But then now they won't post my reviews. Cuz they know it will stop new comers from downloading there app. Hope this answered your question and is useful.

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