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0 pointsdmschulman3y ago0 comments

Take the commentary on Reddit with a grain of skepticism and an understanding that people are speaking from a personal point of view, not an expert point of view. I treat the information I find via Reddit as a strong data point, but not the end of the search.

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technothrasher3y ago

Right, the information on Reddit is more likely (but not guaranteed) to be authentic, not necessarily more likely to be correct.

ludamad3y ago

As well, authenticity can be investigated more than in reviews. If the person has a bunch of genuine seeming posts in other categories the risk of not being authentic is acceptably low for me (might seem like a bit much, but be burned by obscured ads enough times...)

plonk3y ago

If a tweet gets shared enough, its author gets approached by brands who want to pay them to add ads below the tweet. The same probably happens on Reddit, except it's even easier, because anyone can write a review, since the author of a popular post doesn't have a visibility advantage when posting a reply to it.

Just find some random users, and offer to pay them for a good recommendation on some "what is the best product to do X?" post.

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