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The first rule of using Reddit for research, is that you don't tell anyone you are using Reddit for research. Implementing a feature like this will turn Reddit
by poser-boy 4y ago
The first rule of using Reddit for research, is that you don't tell anyone you are using Reddit for research.
Implementing a feature like this will turn Reddit into an astroturfed, SEO hell. There are already articles of people spending a few hundred bucks to make BS go viral on that site.
This can happen more invisibility then an old-school forum (glad Brave is including those BTW), since this unnatural behavior can be easily identified, because of the smaller community, and site that isn't based around upvotes.
- searchableguy 4y agoIt's already gamed to death. I live in India and I've found astroturfed products on reddit (It's not popular here). A while ago, I was looking at pet transportation companies. I came across many innocent looking threads asking for the same which had recommendations for companies. Nothing suspicious except username which had a pattern. I searched for the pattern and found few more similar username doing same recommendation under similar thread. In the end, all of it were accounts by the company or market firm hired by them.
- muh_gradle 4y agoSimilar experience. I was looking up standing desks. Any subreddit related to standing desks were saturated by businesses and their social media reps. While I appreciate that they were upfront, it is getting even harder to get an honest, real person review of various consumer products and services.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI'm convinced it's basically impossible to get good reviews for items such as standing desks. I eventually just bought one and felt like it was pure luck that it didn't suck. I did find some good reviews on the relative merits of standing desks vs. alternatives though.
- jimmytucson 4y agoGood thing no one who works at Reddit is lurking here.