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Crowdsourcing on Reddit, gone are the days when you could answer a question with ‘let me google that for you.’ So you’ll see the same questions appear repeatedl
by cjbgkagh 3y ago
Crowdsourcing on Reddit, gone are the days when you could answer a question with ‘let me google that for you.’ So you’ll see the same questions appear repeatedly in subreddits as previous answers are lost.
Personally, I maintain an extensive bookmark hierarchy and a collection of rss feeds. I also buy more books instead of reading blogs. medium.com with their subscription baiting articles are PiHoled as the signal to noise ratio is so low that I find it’s a net negative.
I’m also looking forward to locally running a LLM as my own personal search engine.
- seejayseesjays 3y agothe SEO folks are starting to pollute reddit threads, too.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoThe Reddit redesign hid the sidebar, where many subreddits had a FAQ. Now, only that tiny percentage that uses old.reddit.com will see the FAQ, Wiki and all those other treasure troves of information the community had built up. I suspected – and continue to suspect – that Reddit wants the same questions to appear over and over again, as that seems like the very definition of engagement. I have also seen mods claim that when people post a question, it isn’t necessarily because they couldn’t answer it themselves, but because they’re just seeking interaction with other members of the community. Therefore, old-school net users who refer people to FAQs are cruelly denying them an outlet for socializing.