Why smart people should not use Reddit

Let's just quickly run through what Reddit truly is at it's core and what follows from this functionality:

You can post things
You can comment on things
You can read other Redditurds's comments on things
You can get brownie points if Redditurds like your comment
There are localized spaces for each type of thing
There are Redditurd moderators who yay or nay each post/comment within a localized space

This means the following is true:

A culture is created, derived from the top-down power hierarchy.
There is an implicit benefit for people to abuse power and create a particular culture of posting/commenting within a given space.

And that the following problems occur:

Echo chambers
Brigading
Profiteering from censorship
Small artificial Overton Window of what constitutes as a good post/comment

The Worst Part

Nobody should be asking random chronically online Redditurds for advice.

Often you might have a question that requires people's experience; that is the expectation of googling a question and appending "reddit" at the end.

The problem is Redditurds will post on everything and anything and have ZERO EXPERIENCE.

You might want to know how much it typically costs to rent a scooter in Thailand and 95% of the comments will say "DONT RIDE A SCOOTER IN THAILAND".

Why do you want your information diet to be composed of simpletons who are chronically online with unlimited access to communication? They have no interest in providing useful information; they want internet brownie points and the dopamine that follows.

Redditurds

Remember as a child in school sometimes you'd have to get into groups of four in class? Sometimes teachers would be witty and make you group up with random kids, and if you were deeply unlucky you had to group with kids you didn't like. It was particularly painful when you were grouped up with people you do not like for a reason: the whole point of making friends is to avoid dealing with people you don't like.

Now, think of the group of individuals who are chronically online looking for random garbage to comment on, particularly from strangers to whom they have no relationship with. The answer is unlikable people AKA Redditurds. Nobody chronically online is likable. They either were likable and then became chronically online, or they were unlikable and so they had to be chronically online to begin with.

Redditsoomers

Anyone remotely interesting burns out from 'contributing' on Reddit because the quality of discussion is so low. But they will still include Reddit in their information diet because they believe it to be a good source of anecdotes or 'knowledge'. I call these people: Redditsoomers.

You can tell when someone is a Redditsoomer from their beliefs about the world. Redditsoomers are the top of the Dunning-Kruger curve because subreddits like to create 'Wiki' posts in which they believe to be the informational holy grail on a given subject.

Reddit is a place for these people to mentally masturbate about a given subject, because there will be some "experts" in the space that they can leech off. The worst type of Redditsoomers are those that obfuscate where they get their information from. They will often act as though they directly did the research, or directly had the experience themselves, or it is a friend with particular credentials.

Redditsoomers secretly know that they are deeply unserious people, but at least they can be right about something without having to work for it.

Experts and Wikis

With regards to "experts" creating these "wikis", I implore the reader to think of the people who collated this information. Actually, I implore you to go explore some subreddits with these 'wikis' denoting a subject that you have some knowledge or expertise in and assess them for yourself. Better yet, ponder upon the idea of who would elect themselves to be an unpaid internet janitor.

Reddit is the digital version of communicating with dumb, unlikable people under the guise of 'socializing' or 'information gathering'.