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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge::Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules.

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[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

but it wont ever give you the unbiased best answer on those recommended threads.

I completely agree. Don’t trust everything you see on the internet

It might be useful to make sure you arent buying trash

This was the main goal. Mad people are likely to be vocal people and they are the ones that go to Reddit and complain about how the latch that releases the waste container on a vacuum broke after a few months.

Reddit wasn’t the only place to go for research on infrequent purchases but it was always a good starting point