Review that violates AMO rules approved by reviewer

Hello,

The following review has been reported as “Misplaced bug report or support request”, which has been approved 7 hours ago by the reviewer rctgamer3: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/particle-iridium/reviews/1058995/

I would like an explanation as to why this review was allowed to stay when it clearly violates the AMO rules regarding posting reviews:

Don’t
(…)
Post technical issues, support requests, or feature suggestions. (…)
(…)
Make false statements, (…)

https://addons.mozilla.org/review_guide

And as I clearly explained in my reply to that review, the points brought up by the user are false and I can only conclude that he did it because he was frustrated as a result of him not wanting to update his browser to a compatible version of the add-on.

For that he decided to use the review section as a revenge mechanism by spreading fear mongering based on false accusations and rate an entire one star just because he assumed - without any troubleshooting whatsoever - that it was caused by the add-on, which does not contain any sort of resource that can drive the CPU to exactly 50% load, which could only happen IF:

He was using the Userscript version, as explained in the welcome message users read when they first install it, which he clearly read: “I’m worried about that Monero message, now…”

And he had to willingly go to the Settings and TURN ON the option, which is OFF by default, which means he wouldn’t be “afraid of something strange” since he did it on his own and the settings clearly display how much of the CPU it will use, so nothing “unexpected” as he reported.

Let’s not forget that this only exists on the USERSCRIPT version, not the add-on/extension versions due to the prohibition set by the AMO store: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1643

Seeing that the user review is without a doubt against the review rules, why was it approved by the mentioned reviewer when it clearly should have been removed?

It has now been approved again by @TheOne (Andreas Wagner) and the option to flag the review has been blocked permanently.

No justifiable reason given so far since this post has been opened.

Approved for a third time, still no explanation.

As a developer it feels quite discouraging watching Mozilla reviewers continuously approving reviews that slanders and downrates an add-on with false statements with no evidence whatsoever. Would be better off just disabling reviews altogether and leave only the ratings on since both are becoming worthless with the latest shift in the AMO direction.

Time to start permanently ignoring reviews from now on.

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