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Top threads in Reddit are often contrived too: comments and recommendations mimicking real flow, just like fraudulent scientific studies fill the framework to look legit and where the layperson, and even scientists who aren't great with understanding statistics will believe it - and which media easily will promote as clickbait, making it a popular "truth" that the masses get familiarized with even if a shallow and incorrect conclusion is propagated.

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If looking for answers to technical questions and sick of the Stackoverflow ‘already answered’ and weird elitism, a Reddit search can be illuminating.