448
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
(arstechnica.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
448 points (96.7% liked)
Technology
59197 readers
848 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
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.
Agreed. But if you wanted human opinions on say, a specific brand a vacuum, 👌
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.
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
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.