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People are already appending "reddit" to their search queries to filter out the SEO blogspam clogging up the results of a regular search. Reddit is already supe
by DoughnutHole 4y ago
People are already appending "reddit" to their search queries to filter out the SEO blogspam clogging up the results of a regular search. Reddit is already superior to base search results for anything that's not plain uncontroversial facts because at least you're getting an actual human's opinion, which you can treat and evaluate as such.
For all its flaws maybe becoming like reddit it what search needs. AI generated spam will likely always be better at gaming a search algorithm than a human. Human moderation has its flaws but at least we're very familiar with them - they might be worth dealing with if it keeps the internet vaguely usable.
- lamontcg 4y agoLots of reddit is already pretty useless, drowning in people who are desperate to sound clever by regurgitating one of the same 50 meme jokes with some minor twist to it. And the astroturfing on the political reddits are likely to start hitting the niche ones with products getting pushed by manufacturers. Just buy accounts that have been built by bots on front-page subreddits, then have them make AI-driven positive comments on the niche subreddits and now you've got organic-looking advertisement for your product. Moderators likely won't help since they are there mostly to keep the trolls out (or they're more focused on whatever political axe they're grinding).
- duskwuff 4y agoReddit is also having some pretty serious problems with bots reposting highly upvoted content, both in posts and comments. Sometimes it gets spotted -- especially when the bots pick content which was specific to some point in time, or when they repost a comment out of context -- but a lot of it goes unnoticed, especially in comment threads.
- spoils19 4y agoMyself, I append hackernews to my search queries as the discourse quality is much higher as well as the communities maturity. Vox populi, Vox de!