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I don't get the appending reddit thing. I don't see why reddit is considered trustworthy, marketers have been planting "organic discussion" on reddit for years.

micromacrofoot 5y ago
In my experience reddit comments are less likely to be marketing than Google results are. Still not entirely trustworthy, absolutely.
- bluGill 5y ago
  The trick is to find an active community where they know their stuff and will downvote/delete spam. Unfortunately those needs to be extremist for their hobby and so they will look down on perfectly fine for normal use low budget things.
JohnJamesRambo 5y ago
But our uncanny valley detector is pretty good at sensing it imo and the upvote system helps and authentic people will comment or disagree. SEO blogs are full uncanny valley for me.
vankessel 5y ago
Yeah, I can't confirm it, but the weirdest I think I've seen is in r/science about research that was funded by the meat industry saying that a diet with meat is healthier than vegetarianism or veganism. The study was poorly done and there were tons of comments pushing the same message: "vegetarians/vegans are annoying hipsters who will lecture you for eating meat and they'll be so deservedly upset by this." Found it and most of those comments are deleted now (https://redd.it/qskxol https://redd.it/qskxol). Is the meat industry losing a sizable chunk of profits to more people swearing off meat for moral reasons, or ditching meat as a financial decision? Edit: Threw that link into a website that restores deleted comments (https://www.reveddit.com/v/science/comments/qskxol/meat_consumption_is_associated_with_better_mental/ https://www.reveddit.com/v/science/comments/qskxol/meat_cons...). Mods deleted all references to fact that the study was funded by a beef company. Blatant corruption?
- ddtaylor 5y ago
  It's actually very common for subreddits to eventually get owned or controlled by the industry leaders and then begin censorship campaigns. One of the most blatant examples of this is /r/bitcoin where any discussion of alternative scaling strategies except 1MB blocks with Layer 2 on top will earn you a ban.
- astrange 5y ago
  The /r/science mods are extremely strict and delete any subjective comments. Some of them like posting clickbait of their own though…

micromacrofoot 5y ago

In my experience reddit comments are less likely to be marketing than Google results are. Still not entirely trustworthy, absolutely.

bluGill 5y ago
The trick is to find an active community where they know their stuff and will downvote/delete spam. Unfortunately those needs to be extremist for their hobby and so they will look down on perfectly fine for normal use low budget things.

JohnJamesRambo 5y ago

But our uncanny valley detector is pretty good at sensing it imo and the upvote system helps and authentic people will comment or disagree. SEO blogs are full uncanny valley for me.

vankessel 5y ago

Yeah, I can't confirm it, but the weirdest I think I've seen is in r/science about research that was funded by the meat industry saying that a diet with meat is healthier than vegetarianism or veganism. The study was poorly done and there were tons of comments pushing the same message: "vegetarians/vegans are annoying hipsters who will lecture you for eating meat and they'll be so deservedly upset by this." Found it and most of those comments are deleted now (https://redd.it/qskxol https://redd.it/qskxol). Is the meat industry losing a sizable chunk of profits to more people swearing off meat for moral reasons, or ditching meat as a financial decision? Edit: Threw that link into a website that restores deleted comments (https://www.reveddit.com/v/science/comments/qskxol/meat_consumption_is_associated_with_better_mental/ https://www.reveddit.com/v/science/comments/qskxol/meat_cons...). Mods deleted all references to fact that the study was funded by a beef company. Blatant corruption?

ddtaylor 5y ago
It's actually very common for subreddits to eventually get owned or controlled by the industry leaders and then begin censorship campaigns. One of the most blatant examples of this is /r/bitcoin where any discussion of alternative scaling strategies except 1MB blocks with Layer 2 on top will earn you a ban.
astrange 5y ago
The /r/science mods are extremely strict and delete any subjective comments. Some of them like posting clickbait of their own though…