Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules.

Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge::Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules.

  • Lun0tic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1021·
    1 year ago

    This is true for the their frontpage at least. Many say it wasn’t a good knowledge base, I feel like it was. Specially for those who starting hobbies or running into issues. Also the most random knowledge would show up there.

    If you were using it to get facts to form an opinion, I would say it wasn’t the best but then again, that style of research is difficult even without reddit.

    I miss the good quality reads I’d get from it, but Lemmy is now that filler for me.

    • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      If you were using it to get facts to form an opinion, I would say it wasn’t the best but then again, that style of research is difficult even without reddit.

      Agreed. But if you wanted human opinions on say, a specific brand a vacuum, 👌

      • Gyromobile@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        1 year ago

        Not sure that is valuable anymore. They say when something becomes the benchmark it ceases to be a useful metric.

        That is to say marketing departments have been long aware of peoples use of reddit and have sewed themselves into the fabric of the “what do you recommend” posts.

        It might be useful to make sure you arent buying trash, but it wont ever give you the unbiased best answer on those recommended threads.

        • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          but it wont ever give you the unbiased best answer on those recommended threads.

          I completely agree. Don’t trust everything you see on the internet

          It might be useful to make sure you arent buying trash

          This was the main goal. Mad people are likely to be vocal people and they are the ones that go to Reddit and complain about how the latch that releases the waste container on a vacuum broke after a few months.

          Reddit wasn’t the only place to go for research on infrequent purchases but it was always a good starting point

        • 8ender@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Fair, but I went to Reddit to see someone disassemble Ryobi batteries to tell us which ones use hood Sony cells or no-name ones, or to see people complain about which products suck. It’s harder to astroturf that.

    • WidowsFavoriteSon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      1 year ago

      I never saw a top-voted comment in my fields of expertise that was even remotely correct. Reddit as a “knowledge base” is shit.