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> Reddit is usually not the place to go for expert discourse Its not expert research but Reddit can be used to find probably-real-first-hand-experience on a gi
by tmpz22 3y ago
> Reddit is usually not the place to go for expert discourse
Its not expert research but Reddit can be used to find probably-real-first-hand-experience on a given subject. Which is enough to prefix "reddit" to a lot of google searches. It just needs to be a marginal improvement to Google blogspam for it to have some intrinsic value.
- piyh 3y agoAlso really depends on what kind of experts you're looking for. 99.99% of the world's experts are not writing in trade publications or scientific journals.
- hospitalJail 3y agoI don't even think blogspam is the problem as much as SEO-gamed content. Blogs are fine, I don't mind reading them. The classic recipe that is 95% down the page with every possible word you could google in the preceding 95% in the form of a fake story.
- enterprise_cog 3y agoIt used to. Past 7ish years or so I saw a lot more posting that was straight up lies or people pretending to be experts that wasn’t heavily downvoted. Or maybe it was always like that and I got more aware. Either way, not something I’d want ingested into a model.