| my biggest gripe are purchased aged accounts, awards, and coordinated manipulation of opinions in r/cryptocurrency r/wallstreetbets in particular. there's clearly pump & dump scams happening here. but its impossible to regulate and prove (VPN). there will come a point where you just can't straight up trust what somebody says anymore on reddit, unless there's some sort of consensus...but even that can be manipulated. if you go to regional subreddits like r/japan or r/korea, you will notice its not even natives jumping on like r/singapore, its mostly expats and surprisingly quite very prejudiced and biased. You would think people exploring other cultures to be open minded, its not in these circles, its an echo chamber for whatever demographic it represents. all in all, reddit as a product and value is as good as 4chan. there's no defense or nuanced balanced views with active moderation like you will find on HN. Hackernews, with its current moderation, that can possibly allow "subreddits" would be far more valuable for me. But lately I also see that HN is not immune from astroturfing and manipulation. It's not hard to see this, you have accounts that aren't active suddenly becoming activated in a particular thread (recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015328) I suspect these are run by the same person trying to "win" or feels they have something to lose. tldr: Text based, anonymous discussion platforms are problematic and rife with manipulation and unreliable trust vectors and don't see any good solutions |