Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later

Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by ramcle on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:03AM (#40211768)

Check out DepthHub: https://www.reddit.com/user/Lapper/m/depthhub/ It's a "multireddit", an amalgamation of multiple subreddits, a feature that Reddit as a company no longer seems to care about. From the description: "DepthHub gathers the best in-depth submissions and discussion on Reddit. You can use the DepthHub as an alternative front page with high quality discussion and inquiry. " I used to visit it pretty much every day, back when third-party apps were allowed.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by nineplay on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:03AM (#40211771)

/r/AskHistorians is a national treasure. Don't trust any 'historical' information from any other subreddit.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by psunavy03 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:19PM (#40212738)

That sub is right on the borderline of "good moderation" and "overpowered mods huffing their own farts."

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by bun_terminator on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:54PM (#40213902)

And it's my goto example of censorship of comical proportions. A space that heavily "moderated" should never be trusted

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by karmakurtisaani on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @02:22PM (#40214331)

Hard disagree. Strict and heavy moderation is the only way to keep any discussion informative. It requires competent moderators, and there will be bad calls by the mods, but overall the alternatives are far worse.

The strictest moderation there is can be found in high quality academic publishing. You are allowed to publish only if what you say has high value, and is said in the proper way. Can't get your Flat Earth Quarterly published in Nature, and we're all better for it.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by psunavy03 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:58PM (#40213990)

Their intention is good trying to keep out blatant spam and misinformation. Being confidently incorrect is basically a running joke on the rest of Reddit. But they could be about 75 percent as draconian as they are and still be fine.

That said, I'd be careful saying the sub can't be "trusted." It's annoying but when you do get an answer it's generally sourced and credible. As opposed to the unadulterated bullshit I've seen on the rest of the site regarding basically anything I have professional experience and/or formal training in.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by 65 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:19AM (#40211971)

I like /r/ExperiencedDevs, it's usually pretty good.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by SlowRobotAhead on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:50AM (#40212427)

What? You don't like getting strongly opinionated advice from kids that haven't even gotten their first internship yet?

I swear some of the things I've been downvoted for in r/embedded is just out of control nuts.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by nunez on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:32PM (#40212892)

It used to be better before the folks from /r/cscareerquestions overwhelmed it

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by the_snooze on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:53AM (#40211621)

If you're a college sports fan, /r/cfb, /r/collegebasketball, and /r/collegebaseball are excellent. The first two are large subreddits, but their mods absolutely stay on top of things. Not just clearing out spam and off-topic discussion, but also posting "official" game threads and post-game summaries so you don't have dozens of "Auburn defeats Alabama 34-28" posts clogging up the front page.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by browningstreet on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:02AM (#40211756)

Also r/AskHistorians

EDIT: Also, the way I make Reddit useful to me is I change the default sorting for subreddits from Hot to Top > Monthly, and also disable content recommendations. It'll shows less content and Reddit will sometimes say "No more content right now", which is great.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by bluetidepro on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:54AM (#40211638)

I don't use reddit for any real news, I just use it for hobbies/interests. Using reddit for news is a terrible idea for all the content farming and spam trash that this post is talking about. That would be like getting your news from just random people shouting on the side of the street.

So the hobbies/games I'm currently playing are subreddits I subscribe to and actively browse. Games like Anno 1800, Cities Skylines, and Manor Lords. All 3 have very active and passionate community members that are constantly posting high quality content around inspiration for builds, tips and tricks, community update news, patch discussions, mods, etc. etc.

If you want more silly subreddits not related to hobbies, it depends on what your humor is. Here is a wide range of options: r/AnimalsBeingBros, r/ActLikeYouBelong, r/softwaregore, r/raspberry_pi, r/lockpicking, r/FellowKids, r/dogswithjobs, r/BirdsArentReal, r/BreadStapledToTrees - subreddits that are related around hobbies or niche humor will make you love reddit.

Again, tl;dr, reddit is not the place for real life news. If you don't use it for that, you'll find yourself enjoying the website a ton more.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by ehaughee on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:01AM (#40211743)

This will definitely be subjective and I highly recommend using the subreddit search to find topics you enjoy, BUT here are a few of mine:

r/billiards r/boots r/frugalmalefashion (arguably small nowadays) r/hiphopheads r/mtb r/self hosted r/sffpc

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by bonestamp2 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:24PM (#40212781)

For the reddit and fashion newbs, I'll add r/malefashionadvice too... I mean, even if you never buy any of the expensive stuff on there, it's good just to browse the outfits people put together to get ideas about the types of things you can buy, colors, materials, accessories and how they can go together.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by spywaregorilla on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:04AM (#40211786)

Don't go to reddit for the sake of going to reddit. If you don't have a specific content area that you want to engage with, just getting involved in the reddit universe is going to be a bad experience.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by lelanthran on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:52AM (#40211607)

I visit /r/programming, /r/gamedev, /r/projectcar and a few others (woodworking, home building, short scifi stories)

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by rvba on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:52AM (#40211612)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/longreads

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by bonestamp2 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:43PM (#40213048)

What things are you passionate about or at least interested in? There is likely a subreddit for each one.

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