The Art of Unasked Advice: Navigating Reddit’s Opinion Minefield

The Art of Unasked Advice: Navigating Reddit’s Opinion Minefield

Can we all agree that Reddit is great? In the digital age, Reddit has emerged as the Colosseum of unsolicited opinions, where keyboard warriors battle over the merits of crunchy versus smooth peanut butter with the passion of gladiators. This platform, a bizarre bazaar of thoughts ranging from the insightful to the utterly insane, serves as a reminder that everyone has an opinion—and they’re all too eager to share it. Whether it’s a heated debate over the correct way to hang toilet paper (over, always over!) or conspiracy theories about why cats really purr, Reddit is the go-to arena for airing grievances, pontificating solutions, and sometimes, just for a good laugh at the absurdity of it all.

A post made by a fellow Redditor asking about the best hacking movies. Along with my response with my top 3:

Harmless right? Well, as we all know in Reddit land (Or any other social media platform really) you will have some douche chime in with their unsolicited opinion. Take our next contestant along with my response:

At this point you might be thinking all is said and done. You would be wrong. This person decides to double down worse than your local Karen at the resident Target demanding to see a manager:

While originally, I was going to be done with this. However, that last sentence response was got me thinking about something since I work in the field. The infosec field is full of enough idiots so let’s edumacate them with some snarkyness (yes new word) in return:

Now at this point I think the contestant might have had enough and started the backtracking with the following remarks. Course followed by my response:

Readers it’s important to know when your opinions is warranted. You have to read the room / thread and original post. If there isn’t anything there that calls out for opinions keep it to yourself. And especially when it is in a field of work this person clearly does not have expertise in. What the saying? Best to be quiet and thought an idiot rather than open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.


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