• 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    37·
    22 hours ago

    The verified posters tend to be millennial academics with masters or PhD’s in history or closely related fields, and they take the name of the community seriously

    Verified by whom?

    Reddit as a whole is a consent manufacturing machine. These “verified” crap shoots, where every one of the “discussions” align with the confirmation bias of the people manufactured by people who want to curate the narrative doesn’t have any credibility beyond people who are gullible or benefit from these narratives.

    But you do you.

    • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Verified by providing well sourced and reasoned answers. There are PhD contributors but mostly it’s down to providing consistently providing context to an answer and not going off on some fringe tangent. It’s easily the most heavily moderated subreddit.

      “Why on reddit” comes up often and the answer has consistently (historically anyway) been that there isn’t really a better long-form public outreach platform at the moment. Blogs are close don’t have the same opportunity for followup questions and definitely don’t have the same “drive-by” effect of just seeing it on the front page.

    • chuymatt@startrek.websiteEnglish
      6·
      16 hours ago

      Literally have watched the typically accepted propaganda get removed quickly on that sub. Also had several conversations with mods when I was on there. Levelheaded and quite serious about their work. Literally the only sub that seemed to maintain ethics and consistency.

      That being said, I’ve not been on there in a couple of years.