Students whose classes were canceled by coronavirus learned that they could avoid doing work by spamming the reviews of their remote-learning app to get it removed from the App Store

Classes were conducted using a remote learning app, DingTalk. On the first day back, DingTalk had 50 million student users, and 600,000 teachers.

Children across China realized that they could get DingTalk kicked off of the App Store if it had a low rating, so in a mass effort they gave the app one star reviews.

Analytics firm App Annie found that DingTalk received more than 15,000 one-star reviews on February 11. Days later, five-star reviews started pouring in from users angry at the kids for the low ratings.

Source: TechNode

Kids were able to drop the app's rating from 4.9 to 1.4 overnight, and DingTalk was forced to plead with them to stop on social media, posting "I'm only five years old myself, please don't kill me."

Source: London Review of Books

DingTalk is owned by ecommerce giant Alibaba, and has been compared to Slack, another workplace messaging app.

Source: Reuters