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0 pointsaddingnumbers3y ago0 comments

Reddit is big on cargo-cult troubleshooting, you can't show them a TCP windowing problem or path MTU detection failure without "try changing your DNS servers" or "disable auto-negotiate on your Ethernet port" getting a hundred upvotes.

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crowbahr3y ago

Ah, I see.

Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for... or even better what the specific web forums dedicated to that topic are for.

But I also rarely encounter a problem that doesn't have an answer ready to hand.

My experience with searching Reddit mostly comes for looking for basic shopping suggestions, specific item reviews, general knowledge type info.

If you're looking for detailed and complex analysis of what's going on an open forum that rewards broadly appealing advice and answers is very obviously not the solution.

TheRealDunkirk3y ago

> Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for

You've hit one of my big beefs with the site. There was a window of a couple of months where it seemed like the ENTIRE first page of results for my programming searches were links to Reddit, which are WORSE than useless. It was clear to me that Reddit was spending INORDINATE amounts of money to have their results pushed to the top. I can't imagine what that had to be to beat out StackOverflow, but that's beside the point. I was already mad about their consumer product "review" cargo culting, but this experience put a chip on my shoulder about ALL of their results now.

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