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The major problem with reddit is that you could never really trust the credentials of the person you were talking to. They might have been PhDs or they might have been 13 year olds who just learned to Google. It amazes me how many times I saw a highly upvoted comment posted about a subject that I knew a lot about, but was just so blatantly wrong.
Yeah voting on content has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with feelings.
People just vote for their side of any discussion, regardless of validity.
Only if it's something controversial. If it's something technical with no political affiliation, people vote for answers that sound right. Thankfully Cunningham's usually comes to the rescue on time.
To be fair this is not a Reddit thing and it can be found in the fediverse too. I can remember some of such situations where a person just posted wrong stuff but in a very confident way. I was able to prove him wrong later but nobody cared anymore.
cunningham's law is intended to be used recursively
I know what you're trying to do, but that is not the case /hj
As long as they provide appropriate sources then it doesn't really matter who they are
Especially if you move 0.1% away from that PhD's particular specialty.
I mean, unironically exactly why people think LLMs are smart.