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> I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretly paid ads. There is so mu
by coolso 5y ago
> I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretly paid ads.
There is so much shilling on Reddit if you knew it would blow your mind. I wish more people realized this. Reddit is the best place to shill because not only is it ridiculously simple, people also automatically assume you’re not shilling, and then once you seed the idea, everyone else will do the shilling for you indirectly.
The healthiest way to use Reddit is like Wikipedia: assume the information you’re reading is highly compromised and biased in one way or another, but use it as a starting point in your further research and it’s a great tool.
Reddit posts are not your friends. Upvotes do not mean the contents of the posts are legitimate or not shilling.
Reddit is the best place to shill and the sooner the non-shillers figure that out, the better off the entire internet will be.
- Klonoar 5y ago>Upvotes do not mean the contents of the posts are legitimate or not shilling. I increasingly think that upvote/downvote culture is the worst thing to happen to the internet and the world at large. The problem is I don't have an alternative solution to propose. Your comment is spot-on in my opinion though - I usually start with Reddit results, but try to check against other sources before relying on it.
- Lascaille 5y agoReddit also - in my opinon - actively enables shilling and botposting. Why do they have an API? A forum that's meant to be 100% about humans talking to humans doesn't need an API, so why does it expose one? Also the model of user-created and user-moderated subreddits actively enables the creation of shill accounts. It's trivial to create a subreddit and use it to farm karma with a ton of bots. If you can keep real users from ever entering your walled garden of a subreddit (of which there are many) your bots will never be detected until you wipe their comment history and set them loose on the rest of the site.
- hnburnsy 5y ago>A forum that's meant to be 100% about humans talking to humans doesn't need an API, so why does it expose one? Third-party clients?
- Seattle3503 5y agoI write moderation bots. Without an API, moderation would be difficult if not impossible.