The Discussion Forums Dominating 10,000 Product Review Search Results - Reddit's dominance and the downsides of that (detailed.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12715607

"I didn’t notice a single new or low-post-count forum"

"There Appears to Be No Benefit if a Forum is Hosted on a Subdomain or Which Software It Uses"

The author lists many reasons why reddit should not be at the top of search results. I listed even more reasons here: Reddit is dangerous. The admins are out of control. Humanity needs a viable alternative.

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[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Of the resulting 122 URLs, 63 have a top comment with a self-promotional affiliate link. Often written months after the original thread was created.

Injecting (posting and manipulating) affiliate links is lucrative for affiliates - Reddit could resolve it by disallowing or automatically clearing affiliate links of links (URL shorteners would be a secondary concern that could be automatically handled too)

Without affiliate spam, it would or could still be lucrative for sellers and product sellers. Which is harder to resolve.

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