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Comment by sil3ntmac | Hacker News Reader

>other developers are gaming the system with bad reviews in an attempt to assassinate their competitor.

Or the actual developer gaming the system with 5 star ratings of his own app.

Then the thing would be shaped like:

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The distribution is what makes me think ratings are genuine for a genuinely good app.

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