# Redditors wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redditors-wrong/989258 "2023-08-29T02:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jagraze1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jagraze1/32/14870_2.png) [@Jagraze1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jagraze1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redditors-wrong/989258/1 "2023-08-29T02:34:08Z")
So is it true that people on reddit mostly share rumors or false info and are usually wrong? A friend told me this. Is this really true? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redditors-wrong/989258/2 "2023-08-29T02:37:18Z")
Reddit has hundreds of millions of users. There’s no such thing as “people on reddit.” There are individual subreddits which have their own cultures, rules, and customs. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redditors-wrong/989258/3 "2023-08-29T02:42:29Z")
As @Johnny_Bravo says. I’m fairly active on Reddit, but I stick to specific subreddits that are germaine to my interest. Some of them are very useful, with intelligent redditors who know what they are talking about. Some are full of idiots and trolls. Regardless, if you, @Jagraze1 , are looking for a “source of truth” for things, any social media site, on its own, is, generally speaking, _not_ necessarily going to be particularly trustworthy. “Some random redditor” might be actually well-versed in a topic, and worth listening to, but he might also be an ill-informed moron, or an active troll, and it may not be easy to tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redditors-wrong/989258/4 "2023-08-29T02:42:55Z")
Moderating: > [@Jagraze1](#): > > So is it true that people on reddit mostly share rumors or false info and are usually wrong? A friend told me this. Is this really true? You were specifically advised by another moderator in another thread here: > [@The Situation of the Basque language is awfully overestimated](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-situation-of-the-basque-language-is-awfully-overestimated/989008/36): > > Moderator Note Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board! If you want to talk about the Basque language, that’s great! You’ll probably get some interesting conversation about it here. But this is not the place to bitch about reddit. Let’s have no more discussion about reddit, please. If you want to bitch about reddit, do it on reddit. Not here. Again, welcome, and we hope that you enjoy your time here. to not discuss Reddit. This is a formal warning for failing to heed moderator instructions. This thread is closed. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redditors-wrong/989258/5 "2023-08-29T02:43:14Z")