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The only problem is bad advice that can come up quite often on Reddit. There are various subreddits where young people ask for advice and other young people wi

The only problem is bad advice that can come up quite often on Reddit. There are various subreddits where young people ask for advice and other young people with no experience are giving advice that might influence others negatively. Otherwise, Reddit is great for technical stuff and niche community communication.

SteveNuts 3y ago
> There are various subreddits where young people ask for advice and other young people with no experience are giving advice that might influence others negatively. I've yet to see a relationships advice thread where the top comment isn't "get divorced immediately" Which is scary, because these people are taking OP's comment at face value and only hearing one side of the story.
- cjk2 3y ago
  Worked for me!
- avar 3y ago
  It's actually good advice. If you're the sort of person who's seeking out those narcissistic writing excersise subs for relationship advice you probably should get divorced.
WWLink 3y ago
If there's one thing I learned from reddit, it's how not to build a wooden deck lol.
buffet_overflow 3y ago
I’d love to see two types of upvotes on the site. One for “thanks for answering/engaging” and another for “this answer is correct and high quality”. Not sure how you’d restrict or verify the votes, but I think the issue you’re pointing out is a result of only having one metric of engagement.
- adamomada 3y ago
  Slashdot solved it more than twenty years ago.
  - ryandrake 3y ago
    Slashdot also had the concept of meta-moderation, where the site's users could vote on whether a particular mod's actions were appropriate/fair or not. Presumably mods that were voted as problematic stopped getting the ability to mod. Slashdot was in many ways way ahead of their time. I think Reddit (and even HN) could benefit from this kind of check/balance.
Klonoar 3y ago
The way I describe Reddit to people is that you have zero clue if you’re arguing with a 13 year old who discovered $x concept this week. (Or a bot) If you move through the site with that understanding - and personally, using the old interface - it can still be bearable. I’m not the biggest fan of the company itself these days and I hold out hope that something else can take off, but I’ve not been impressed so far.
- adamomada 3y ago
  I have a theory that reddit was pretty decent when it first started because the majority of the site users were at least university or college students/age. Nowadays the average age is high school, and probably trending to grade school These are the people who are influencing the Google search user at large now. We’re fucked
  - bogtog 3y ago
    > Nowadays the average age is high school, and probably trending to grade school Have you ever seen one of the site surveys that subreddits typically do? The median age is almost always above college graduation (22 years old), at least for the subs I frequent. I could see the front page subs having a median in college age (18-22), but I'd be really surprised if it was below 18.
  - Workaccount2 3y ago
    There was a long period where the internet was intimidating and unattractive to regular people. It acted as a strong filter for determining who the people that frequented early sites where.
    - ThrowawayTestr 3y ago
      Eternal summer...
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
  - 3y ago
smitty1110 3y ago
The real indictment here isn't that Reddit serves bad advice, it's that Google is just bad at providing you with relevant information. This is a symptom of people trying to find real humans talking about stuff by slapping "reddit" on the front of every search, because the SEO garbage that rises to the top isn't worth a read.
asdff 3y ago
>Otherwise, Reddit is great for technical stuff and niche community communication. I used to believe this but its becoming clear to me that for just about every subbreddit for my different niche interests, a common theme emerges of a dogma endorsed by the community. This might be a concept, an idea, a tool, something sold, something not sold, but whatever it is, the community latches on it hard and doesn't let go. If you offer different experiences to the contrary of the dogma of the day people either ignore you at best or downvote and get combative.
purpleblue 3y ago
Another huge problem is the extreme left wing political bias almost everything has on the front page. I'm a centrist but the violently left views of everything on the front page is really offputting and I used to love reddit.
eBombzor 3y ago
r/cscareerquestions

SteveNuts 3y ago

> There are various subreddits where young people ask for advice and other young people with no experience are giving advice that might influence others negatively. I've yet to see a relationships advice thread where the top comment isn't "get divorced immediately" Which is scary, because these people are taking OP's comment at face value and only hearing one side of the story.

cjk2 3y ago
Worked for me!
avar 3y ago
It's actually good advice. If you're the sort of person who's seeking out those narcissistic writing excersise subs for relationship advice you probably should get divorced.

WWLink 3y ago

If there's one thing I learned from reddit, it's how not to build a wooden deck lol.

buffet_overflow 3y ago

I’d love to see two types of upvotes on the site. One for “thanks for answering/engaging” and another for “this answer is correct and high quality”. Not sure how you’d restrict or verify the votes, but I think the issue you’re pointing out is a result of only having one metric of engagement.

adamomada 3y ago
Slashdot solved it more than twenty years ago.
- ryandrake 3y ago
  Slashdot also had the concept of meta-moderation, where the site's users could vote on whether a particular mod's actions were appropriate/fair or not. Presumably mods that were voted as problematic stopped getting the ability to mod. Slashdot was in many ways way ahead of their time. I think Reddit (and even HN) could benefit from this kind of check/balance.

Klonoar 3y ago

The way I describe Reddit to people is that you have zero clue if you’re arguing with a 13 year old who discovered $x concept this week. (Or a bot) If you move through the site with that understanding - and personally, using the old interface - it can still be bearable. I’m not the biggest fan of the company itself these days and I hold out hope that something else can take off, but I’ve not been impressed so far.

adamomada 3y ago
I have a theory that reddit was pretty decent when it first started because the majority of the site users were at least university or college students/age. Nowadays the average age is high school, and probably trending to grade school These are the people who are influencing the Google search user at large now. We’re fucked
- bogtog 3y ago
  > Nowadays the average age is high school, and probably trending to grade school Have you ever seen one of the site surveys that subreddits typically do? The median age is almost always above college graduation (22 years old), at least for the subs I frequent. I could see the front page subs having a median in college age (18-22), but I'd be really surprised if it was below 18.
- Workaccount2 3y ago
  There was a long period where the internet was intimidating and unattractive to regular people. It acted as a strong filter for determining who the people that frequented early sites where.
  - ThrowawayTestr 3y ago
    Eternal summer...
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
- 3y ago

smitty1110 3y ago

The real indictment here isn't that Reddit serves bad advice, it's that Google is just bad at providing you with relevant information. This is a symptom of people trying to find real humans talking about stuff by slapping "reddit" on the front of every search, because the SEO garbage that rises to the top isn't worth a read.

asdff 3y ago

>Otherwise, Reddit is great for technical stuff and niche community communication. I used to believe this but its becoming clear to me that for just about every subbreddit for my different niche interests, a common theme emerges of a dogma endorsed by the community. This might be a concept, an idea, a tool, something sold, something not sold, but whatever it is, the community latches on it hard and doesn't let go. If you offer different experiences to the contrary of the dogma of the day people either ignore you at best or downvote and get combative.

purpleblue 3y ago

Another huge problem is the extreme left wing political bias almost everything has on the front page. I'm a centrist but the violently left views of everything on the front page is really offputting and I used to love reddit.

eBombzor 3y ago

r/cscareerquestions