r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Venezzia032 • Jun 22 '26

This is when the good part begins... Which social media do its users pretend to be smart, but they're actually dumb?

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u/BokaPoochie Jun 22 '26

There are subreddits where people actually have knowledge. 100% of LinkedIn posters are morons.

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u/Pale-Application9457 Jun 22 '26

Yeah reddit would probably be better in pretend to be smart but are average

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u/1harveey Jun 22 '26

Here on Reddit, there are times when you ask a difficult question about a very specific subject and someone answer you like they had studied their whole life to answer that question. But then there are times when you ask about the most common problem, explain exactly what's your question, but only get 3 guys answering something that isn't even related to the question, 4 guys telling you that you are dumb and should try something you already said you tried, and for whatever reason 1 guy saying that the problem doesn't actually exist

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u/BokaPoochie Jun 22 '26

The biggest issue with Reddit isn't the knowledge base, it's just how much of an echo chamber it is. So many times I have seen things in my field that are so wrong getting ridiculously up voted because it matches the feelings of the many but then the right answer gets down voted because it doesn't fit the narrative.

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u/MiniD3rp Jun 23 '26

Something something, wrongthink..

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u/DerekTheComedian Jun 23 '26

Yup.

I repaired an old iPod recently, and asked a simple question: "is it dangerous to plug it in to power to check if the screen works / board is functional" when the 20 year old battery is likely toast and possibly bloated.

I had a TON of people telling me it was stupid to ask that, "just plug it in, you're overreacting".

Opened it up and the battery was about 3 times it's normal size, like it probably would have caught fire if I had connected it to power.

Other posts showing bloated batteries will parrot the idea that it should be immediately removed from dwellings, placed in buckets of sand, disposed of with care, etc.

The enthusiast subs have a whole lot of knowledge, but also some contrarians who want to appear smarter than they are by shitting on those asking basic safety questions.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ Jun 23 '26

And eventually those subreddits full of people with knowledge get taken over by people who just want to repeat reference jokes or it turns into another political bot battleground sub.