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YouTube or google site:reddit.com usually yields the best actual human reviews for me. Or specific categories like America’s Test Kitchen for kitchen stuff.
by darzu 4y ago
YouTube or google site:reddit.com usually yields the best actual human reviews for me.
Or specific categories like America’s Test Kitchen for kitchen stuff.
- AussieWog93 4y ago100% this. YouTube's fantastic for real reviews.
- adastra22 4y agoVideo is terrible as a medium though. Can't skim, can't grep, not trivial to index. I hate that more and more content is moving to video (or podcast) format.
- saiya-jin 4y agoAlso once its removed due to whatever (copyright, owner is removed from youtube, reported, million other reasons) its gone. No archive.org, google cache or anything left.
- idoh 4y agosite:reddit.com works and I use it often. But I do wonder how long it will be until reddit starts to get gamed as well (if it isn't already).
- kettleballroll 4y agoIt regularly gets gamed very hard. You can sell old high karma accounts for quite a lot of money, because those are best for such things. It's also a thin line between astroturfing and fill on spamming products. But I have no doubts that some reviews on Reddit are payed for.
- KoftaBob 4y ago> You can sell old high karma accounts for quite a lot of money, because those are best for such things. Why is the accounts karma important for something like that? Does the Reddit algorithm favor high karma accounts when deciding what posts to rank higher?
- idoh 4y agoJust speculating, but if you create a new account and then spam some positive reviews people will notice and downvote / get you banned from the sub-reddit. If you have some built up history it looks more legit to the other community members.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI'm guessing here, but a lot of subreddits have a minimum karma requirement to make posts or comments (it's a decent anti-spam measure, but easily gamed by low effort bots reposting content every month or so, pretty high chance a lot of people won't have seen it before). And as with other social media companies, the company behind it is fine with it; bot engagement and bot content is still content, people still watch it, upvote it, and ads and other things are still sold.
- charlie0 4y agoIf there's money to be made (and there is) assume it's getting gamed to some degree.
- ssully 4y agoI wouldn't use Reddit for anything but general product usage information. You can get some honest reviews from Reddit users, but I find a lot of it is people justifying their purchase instead of honest feedback.