Forums hve been dying for a decade so I’m not sure what other discussion sources they can add, aside from maybe Quora and maybe Twitter.
Discussions: Real human answers in search results
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#22I hope Reddit has a good anti-bot system in place.
Brace for SEO spammers, they're coming to your subreddit.
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#23The content of Reddit discussions on relative merit are terrible. Usually a bunch of groups are repeating long-held misconceptions that may have been true at some point but are no longer true, and get upvoted by people that recognize the same out-of-date facts. I'm not saying the web-at-large is _much_ better, but curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard).…
I have the same experience.
Usually, I find Reddit discussions at least 5 orders of magnitude less valuable than HN ones, for example.
They're not useless, but HN most often contain good advice. It has bad advice too, but it's easier to sort out.
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#24Forums hve been dying for a decade so I’m not sure what other discussion sources they can add, aside from maybe Quora and maybe Twitter.
HN?
I'm sure there are many 'HN-like' forums for many other topics.
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#25I think search should be split into two categories, one is seeking advice from other humans, another is pinpoint exact doc retrieval without the fuzzing or auto-correction bullshit
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#26I hope Reddit has a good anti-bot system in place. Brace for SEO spammers, they're coming to your subreddit.
> Brace for SEO spammers, they're coming to your subreddit.
Or those million complete waste of time MVP vote whores who just paste the "Reset PRAM" or other irrelevant standard block pasts to every question on the google support groups.
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#27I hope Reddit has a good anti-bot system in place. Brace for SEO spammers, they're coming to your subreddit.
It does. Human moderators!
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#28The first rule of using Reddit for research, is that you don't tell anyone you are using Reddit for research.
Implementing a feature like this will turn Reddit into an astroturfed, SEO hell. There are already articles of people spending a few hundred bucks to make BS go viral on that site.
This can happen more invisibility then an old-school forum (glad Brave is including those BTW), since this unnatural behavior can be easily identified, because of the smaller community, and site that isn't based around upvotes.
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#29I find myself attaching "reddit" to the end of search queries more and more so this is a great feature. Even though the discussions aren't always perfect its nice to see opinions that aren't manufactured to maximize clout, SEO, or ad revenue like most of the internet is.
Every time I find a promising search result from reddit on a niche topic, it turns out I wrote it like 5 years ago. And the answers are unsatisfactory.
Just too niche and search engines got too bad, and more of the conversational internet went behind walled gardens.
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#30The content of Reddit discussions on relative merit are terrible. Usually a bunch of groups are repeating long-held misconceptions that may have been true at some point but are no longer true, and get upvoted by people that recognize the same out-of-date facts. I'm not saying the web-at-large is _much_ better, but curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard).…
In fields where I have expertise, the Reddit discussions I've seen are worse than nothing - the wrong answers to the wrong questions. I find them a waste of time, with very rare exceptions.
Perhaps I'm painting with too broad a brush, and some subreddits are valuable?
> curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard)
Yes! I would love a search engine that is limited to high-quality sources. Technically it seems simple: Just limit indexing to expert/professional/high-quality domains. If I look up something in the field of science, show me results from Nature, the NY Times science section, AAAS, conferences, Scientific American, etc.
Some valuable content would inevitably be omitted, but we live in an age of information overload - I would much rather omit a few things than deal with the 99% low quality info.