[bloomingkales]

I have a suspicion it’s worse than beginners (absolutely nothing wrong with beginners).

There’s a cohort of marketers on Reddit that profit off of beginner-aimed content. Lots of “oh I just built a successful game doing this”, link off to a blog. So the shepherds in those subreddits are not really elders, but sadly, grifters. In turn the beginners sort of stay perpetual beginners. It’s horrific if you go to the /r/startup type subreddits, the grift is super strong there.

Makes you really appreciate HN, good shepherds (not perfect, but good).