It's a little bit more nuanced than that. It's easy to get the Internet riled up over a perceived offense (deception, scamming, fraud, other unethical behavior

It's a little bit more nuanced than that. It's easy to get the Internet riled up over a perceived offense (deception, scamming, fraud, other unethical behaviors), just like it's easy to get any group of people up in arms over the same thing. I wouldn't list Reddit or any particular website as the source of this kind of witch hunting issue. The only thing to blame is the stupidity of crowds. If people went out of their way to see both sides of an issue, consider the sources and veracity of claimed facts and evidence, and actually make an informed decision then it'd be fine. Obviously, this doesn't happen that much. But all I'll say is that just because some wall of text on Reddit has a lot of upvotes doesn't necessarily say anything about the actual truth of its contents. That means it's a bit foolish to discount all such things as distorted and inaccurate rabble rousing, just as foolish as the people who believe whatever they read without a second thought.