Like what do I even do at this point. Its a free app and these reviews hurt app store performance,

235 points

Standard reply:

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive message, and it seems they used your account to send it. I’m replying to you as a courtesy in case you wish to take action against this lunatic.

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I’m guessing you’re basing it off of this official legal correspondence, which I am including below for people who haven’t seen it:

Dear Mr. Cox:

Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

Very truly yours,

CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP.

James N. Bailey, General Counsel

cc: Arthur B. Modell

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Not that, specifically, though it might be indirectly?

I’m basing it off of one of Gyles Brandreth’s yarns where he described how he dealt with abusive constituents when he was a MP.

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive letter, and they’ve signed your name at the bottom. […]

Whether he came up with that or adapted it from something prior, I don’t know.

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Is there a They/Them for Sir or Madam? Must include that as well.

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Sadam.

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To it may concern:

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I’d guess “To whom it may concern” would be the most gender neutral/inclusive way to rephrase that.

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Not that I know of. Unless someone has stated their gender or pronouns, I just use people’s names and avoid anything that assumes or implies gender.

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“Dearest snookums”

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“Sir or Madam” already is a “They/Them”.

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If you believe my therapist friend who is also non-normative in a relevant fashion, demands for pronouns are often ‘othering’ in result, and thus go from farce to force.

So, I write fewer email.

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Like writing a product review and giving one star for shipping speed lol.

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Or recipe reviews.

“I didn’t have flour, so I substituted lard. I also didn’t have sugar, so I substituted salted cod. Worst cake ever. 1 star.”

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This item funtioned exactly as intended but didnt do what i wanted it to do.
One star.

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After selling on eBay I once got the feedback that the buyer was deeply disappointed because what he had received was exactly what had been listed and shown in the photo, but nothing else, which somehow he had hoped for.

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I read somewhere that the best places to eat are Yelp 2 star places where the reviewer whines about service. It suggests the reviewer wanted to give a 1 star review because they were mad but had to concede that the food was good, hence 2 stars.

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And then they take 2h to get your food, you find the waiter’s entire ponytail in it, and you’re yelled at if you don’t tip 50%? Idk man, some restaurants get bad reviews for service because they have bad service. And having bad service detracts from the experience of going out to eat.

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on the French Amazon I once bought Argan oil and one of the 1 star reviews was “very disappointed, smells and feels like oil”.

I kid you not.

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"This oven is horrible! 0 stars! Everything my wife makes on it or in it tastes terrible, "

Sorry, yo. Ya can’t fix stupid.

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Haha you made my day!

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That’s like being mad at the bus because your chosen destination for the day sucked.

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'Murican voters.

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Dutch ones are the same. Source: am dutch

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The stupid bus made it rain!

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That was a very diplomatic response to some stupid asshole like this.

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Too diplomatic even.

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Are you allowed to respond honestly?

If you made a response like:

"Dear reviewer,

When I wrote the code for this app, which displays content from reddit that I have no control over, I never envisioned some fuckwit moron would be so stupid that he or she would get mad at the App for just displaying what’s on reddit.

In the future, I’ll add a disclaimer that goes “Are you some anti-DEI piece of shit who thinks everything is Woke? Press the large red button icon below to only see the “based” subreddit.” I hope this will help you understand how to use this App, you fucking idiot.

Sincerely, Developer"

would that get your kicked off the store?

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