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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge::Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules.

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[–] Lun0tic@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

Agreed. But if you wanted human opinions on say, a specific brand a vacuum, 👌

[–] Gyrolemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 7 points 1 year ago

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

It might be useful to make sure you arent buying trash

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 3 points 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.