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It's upsetting and troubling how appending "reddit" to a search is your only hope of getting honest information, especially about products. Everything else is
by Workaccount2 3y ago
It's upsetting and troubling how appending "reddit" to a search is your only hope of getting honest information, especially about products.
Everything else is ridden with SEO spam and faux reviews with referral links.
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- computerliker69 3y agoDoes Reddit have any special controls to stop astroturfing or fake reviews?
- znep 3y agoUsers and (at least before the last run through the meat grinder) moderators.
- nimih 3y agoThey have human moderators who by and large care about maintaining the quality of the communities they moderate, and give those moderators buttons to delete posts and ban users. Although FWIW, reddit seems to have it's fair share of astroturfing (at least, in my own anecdotal experience), it's just comparatively less egregious than rawdogging the google results.
- bmurphy1976 3y agoSure they do, and the moderators, but it's getting worse. Quite a few of the sub-reddits I liked went to shit over the summer when they made the API changes. The replacement mods aren't doing the same quality work as the original mods. What were nice sub-reddits previously are memified and gamified garbage now.
- flenserboy 3y agoThe fun part about that is that this method gives better results than searching on Reddit.
- ddtaylor 3y agoAlso gives results at all. Reddit search doesn't even do comments.