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I wonder why Brave Search doesn't have an option to disable the suggestion feature.
Discussion boards should largely be containerized into niches/domains. Generalized QnA forums with central moderated are bad design. Case in point - Quora. Quora is essentially what not to do when you want to build a discussion board. Quora's moderation services suck and it's automated spam filters has failed adapt to the "Value first, pitch last" posts.
The 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…
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It's already gamed to death. I live in India and I've found astroturfed products on reddit (It's not popular here). A while ago, I was looking at pet transportation companies. I came across many innocent looking threads asking for the same which had recommendations for companies. Nothing suspicious except username which had a pattern. I searched for the pattern and found few more similar username doing same recommend…
Similar experience. I was looking up standing desks. Any subreddit related to standing desks were saturated by businesses and their social media reps. While I appreciate that they were upfront, it is getting even harder to get an honest, real person review of various consumer products and services.
How concerned should we be that this only works because currently SEO has no incentive to target Reddit or StackOverflow, and if this takes off, those communities will be overrun by SEO spam?
how would that work? the point of the SEO spam is to fill up a site with 'content' and then sell ads or affiliate links to make money on that site You can't really make money by commenting on Reddit, they are very agressive about affiliate links and banning
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.
HN? I'm sure there are many 'HN-like' forums for many other topics.
Forums have way deeper discussions meanwhile hn's approach is wider
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HN? I'm sure there are many 'HN-like' forums for many other topics.
Hn is not forum Forums have way deeper discussions meanwhile hn's approach is wider
Definition of forum: [1]
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b: a public meeting place for open discussion
c: a medium (such as a newspaper or online service) of open discussion or expression of ideas
The 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 limi…
Maintain a few lists of sources you deem authorities in various disciplines, and voila…
While I agree the current state of search is pretty brutal, it’s still a slight improvement over the limitations of a physical library or encyclopedia.
That said, IMHO it’s unreasonable to expect any ‘search engine’ to be able to capture the intent of your brief query string, survey the current authorities (simply determining said authorities is contentious enough), and return the type of results you’re describing - in countless languages and across infinite disciplines, no less