Adding onto this, Reddit is a terrible place for advice, but there are a lot of good gems in there. If you knew which subreddits to search. Because there aren't

Adding onto this, Reddit is a terrible place for advice, but there are a lot of good gems in there. If you knew which subreddits to search. Because there aren't alternative communities for that topic, and people gather there. I have used reddit for some programming related advice (excel VBA, batchscripting, etc). It was better than what I got from stackoverflow Whenever I need a 2nd opinion on something, the first thing I do is "<insert topic> reddit". There's usually a lot of good insights to glean from it. The nice thing about reddit is it is also generally less biased in my opinion than quora, since there isn't an ulterior objective to most posts. It doesn't really matter if we're talking about reddit, quora, hackernews, stackoverflow, etc. Bad advice is found everywhere. Its up to you to ultimately gauge if that person is really an expert or not. But this tool is not a bad idea though. Someone who constantly post things about Postgresql is probably an expert, or someone trying to be an expert. All it takes is just a bit of sifting through their post history to know