Discussions: Real human answers in search results

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that may have been true at some point but are no longer true, and get upvoted by people that recognize the same out-of-date facts.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). Throwing more algorithmic crap on the results page doesn't make results better. It just adds more noise.

The given example on the blog post points to this page [1] where the top comments/top replies are:

- "I know OLEDs are better, but you should at least show 2 pictures from the same angle." "The room lighting is completely different as well. I don't understand the motivation here. Bit of a weird post"

- "You ah ..... You see that location more times than you care to admit ?" "Yeah but now when he sees it, it has the deepest blacks"

- "I absolutely think OLED is way better than LCD, too. Just your comparison is not good. [...]" "I totally agree, it was a spur-of-the-moment comparison as I saw the awful backlight bleed and the shimmering on the image I put on top there [...]"

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/safq43/the_dif...

I 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.

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

Yeah, I'm not sure it would work the same as current SEO spam, but I just feel like some portion of this idea is predicated on mis-aligning incentives. Right now, SEO has no incentive to go after Reddit comments, so Reddit comments are (apparently) higher quality than raw search results. But once search engines start directing people to Reddit comments, the SEO's incentives shift, and it feels like their behavior would change accordingly (although I admit I can't articulate a clear vision of what that new behavior would be), causing the reliability of Reddit comments to plummet.

Maybe it's true that Reddit's moderation is sufficient to prevent this from happening, but I feel like I see a decent amount of SEO-adjacent subreddits already, for things like new crypto pump-and-dumps. Before Reddit removed nsfw subs from r/all, you'd sometimes see a bunch of spam links for OnlyFans sites.

I could imagine a situation where Brave has to try to distinguish good subreddits from bad subreddits and it becomes just as challenging as distinguishing good websites from bad websites.

Google used to have this. It showed search results from all kinds of different forums. Remember vbulletin and phpbb? It was a really useful feature and I don’t know why Google removed it.

I guess the equivalent search function in 2022 would search reddit, fb groups and discord.