[hilbert42]

"Now people just search for reddit posts instead. We want to see what real people think about the product, not some paid-for opinion."

You're dead right, there is no other way to get real/accurate facts about products other than to check the experience of others.

One gets good at it too, one quickly learns how to distinguish those who've vested interests and hype up their products over those of rivals, similarly one learns to ignore the clueless who down rate a good product simply because they're incapable of reading the manual.

I've found that doing such research across multiple sites to be absolutely invaluable.