New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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Medium wants me to pay them to read a story from "Homeless Romantic" who is listed as a "Ph.D. Rocket Surgeon & Aspiring Troglodyte"?

Are they fucking high?

well, whomever describes themselves in such a manner clearly is.

It's been a wonder that site ever got traction as something credible to get info from and not just a weird mesh of editorial, blogging, and long winded shitposts...

edit: That being said, fuck reddit.

I've always seen it as a site for random people to shitpost. Who takes Medium seriously as a credible source?

For me, it was often a place where a lot of qualified people would essentially write blogs because hosting their own site for it would get utterly ignored by google. The last few years though I've got more utter morons than people who can write a good article, even for generic questions that they could straight up copy and paste from another site.