[zare_st]

Not only that, reddit hive mind is plain wrong in most of the cases. Plus in number of occasions the "le reddit investigation", "we did it reddit" excrement caused real-world issues for people that they were targeting, and those people were innocent.

Reddit is ok and quite cool for targeted discussion on targeted sub-reddits. But all the general subreddits visited by general population and everything that pops once in a while on the front page is a target for hive mind.

For HN comparison, there is a lot of "wrong" here too, but here you can find a cited academic study from one good American university that reveals most of the botfarms and fake news disseminators come from western sphere. If you try to claim on Reddit or anywhere on the internet that fake news champion is not Russia+China+whoever is evil, your entry will get buried.

Also, ask yourself who's the median redditor. For my country's national subreddit the median redditor is a high school kid from the capital.

[mvdtnz]

Try saying anywhere on Reddit "WD-40 is a lubricant" and be prepared to face a tsunami of incorrect information. Or say anything about glyphosate.

[zare_st]

I don't know what's their deal with glyphosate but I'm pretty confident that avg Redditor never held a can of WD in their life.