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Somehow Reddit has avoided being overrun by bot/affiliate spam and has become a better source of certain types of information. I don't know how. Perhaps some combination of the voting system (effectively outsourcing getting rid of junk) and algorithms.

I'm building a photo booth and an example from today: if I search Google for the best budget PC with discrete graphics cards, everything other than the Reddit link is garbage/affiliate spam. But a few clicks on the Reddit links and voila, real options.

Google itself seems either unable to stop their site from being full of garbage, or they just don't care because what are you going to do, switch to Bing?




The legions of unpaid mods manually reviewing user comments and posts are such an advantage. A lot of people attempt to run their own shill subreddits but they end up being such poor quality and isolated that no one goes to them and they're basically invisible. I feel like one of the reasons reddit search is so bad, is that you actually get exposed to all the low quality subs that way whereas Google just ignores unpopular subs.


Yes I think that’s the case. Google does a better job of indexing Reddit than Reddit does for sure.

That’s why I still type the search in Google rather than Reddit. That seems like something Reddit could and should fix.


I beg to differ look at the amount of conde nast reposts, posts that just link to Wikipedia and posts that are repated over and over.


> But a few clicks on the Reddit links and voila, real options.

It costs very little (to hire a firm) to embed the exact same garbage ad link in a "real human" reddit comment.

Reddit is absolutely overrun with guerilla advertisement.




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