[thehashrocket]

Can you trust reddit, though? There's plenty of social media campaigns out there that have people plugging stuff on reddit to promote some company or agenda.

[krageon]

Reddit is very useful for niche results that are normally functionally impossible to find any information on at all. If that is not the case, it's not really the shilling that's the biggest trouble, it is that people on Reddit have just become a cross-slice of regular society now. That means that when they answer questions about anything that even remotely requires domain knowledge, you can be entirely certain that they will be wrong in ways that you do not expect.

[lostlogin]

Try it and see. It’s good for fixing many problems that relate to coding too, but are of the type closed on Stack Overflow. Sure, the problem is basic, but when I’m stuck a ‘duplicate closed’ is unhelpful.

[trickstra]

the per-community moderation makes marketing spam much harder

[acdha]

Blatant spam, yes, but if it’s like what’s being discussed here I’d be hesitant that it goes much better than amazon reviews. It’s just too easy to create fake accounts and you don’t need to be that smart to avoid telegraphing this.