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Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

crowbahr wrote: post #51
addingnumbers wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is big on cargo-cult troubleshooting, you can't show them a TCP windowing problem or path MTU detection failure without "try changing your DNS servers" or "disable auto-negotiate on your Ethernet port" getting a hundred upvotes.

Ah, I see. Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for... or even better what the specific web forums dedicated to that topic are for. But I also rarely encounter a problem that doesn't have an answer ready to hand. My experience with searching Reddit mostly comes for looking for basic shopping suggestions, specific item reviews, general knowled…

> Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for

You've hit one of my big beefs with the site. There was a window of a couple of months where it seemed like the ENTIRE first page of results for my programming searches were links to Reddit, which are WORSE than useless. It was clear to me that Reddit was spending INORDINATE amounts of money to have their results pushed to the top. I can't imagine what that had to be to beat out StackOverflow, but that's beside the point. I was already mad about their consumer product "review" cargo culting, but this experience put a chip on my shoulder about ALL of their results now.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by technothrasher »

dmschulman wrote: post #54
TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #43

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What's the point? Product reviews are all gamed. Having been burned several times trying to use "reviews," and buying "the good stuff," only to have it break within a couple years, has soured me on any and all review systems or services (especially Consumer Reports), and convinced me that they only way to get REAL quality is to spend 2x-5x as much for something as the mainstream leader in the category. I believe that…

Take the commentary on Reddit with a grain of skepticism and an understanding that people are speaking from a personal point of view, not an expert point of view. I treat the information I find via Reddit as a strong data point, but not the end of the search.

Right, the information on Reddit is more likely (but not guaranteed) to be authentic, not necessarily more likely to be correct.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by Fnoord »

idontwantthis wrote: post #4

Reddit search is terrible, so you use Google to search Reddit. Google search is terrible for product reviews, so you use it to get to back to Reddit.

Don't have to use Google. Duckduckgo or any other search engine is suffice.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by gpm »

vgalin wrote: post #18

You can achieve the same result on Firefox without any extention (and maybe Chrome too). To do so have use "Custom Keywords"[0], which kind of allow you to change the behaviour of your search bar. For example, one of my keywords is "rd", and typing "rd my search" in my search bar launch a search on Google with "my search site:reddit.com". I've seen people doing really cool things using these custom keywords and JS, I…

What I'd really like to see is some way to important some giant list of them, like duckduckgos list of bangs.

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by ludamad »

technothrasher wrote: post #62
dmschulman wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take the commentary on Reddit with a grain of skepticism and an understanding that people are speaking from a personal point of view, not an expert point of view. I treat the information I find via Reddit as a strong data point, but not the end of the search.

Right, the information on Reddit is more likely (but not guaranteed) to be authentic, not necessarily more likely to be correct.

As well, authenticity can be investigated more than in reviews. If the person has a bunch of genuine seeming posts in other categories the risk of not being authentic is acceptably low for me (might seem like a bit much, but be burned by obscured ads enough times...)

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by CameronNemo »

bilekas wrote: post #17
pluc wrote: post #14

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reddit's whole infrastructure is straight out of a case study

True. Their implementation of a video player baffles the mind too.

I've heard a lot of hate about their video player, but it always works for me.

What exactly is the issue with it?

Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

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Post by gpgn »

bilekas wrote: post #17
pluc wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

reddit's whole infrastructure is straight out of a case study

True. Their implementation of a video player baffles the mind too.

It always plays the video for a few seconds the first time, than goes back to the beginning and plays it correctly till the end. God forbid if you try to mute/unmute it. On Firefox at least.
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