I never saw a top-voted comment in my fields of expertise that was even remotely correct. Reddit as a “knowledge base” is shit.
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Lun0tic@lemmy.world 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.
WidowsFavoriteSon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Agreed. But if you wanted human opinions on say, a specific brand a vacuum, 👌
Gyrolemmy@lemmy.world 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.world 1 year ago
I completely agree. Don’t trust everything you see on the internet
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.world 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.