It’s funny how different social media platforms work. You can post an idea on LinkedIn and only receive praise and post the same idea on Reddit and only receive negative feedback (sometimes even disrespectful comments or insults lol).
The answer is obvious: Reddit is anonymous.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Reddit. I find it very useful. I’m a marketer and it helps me write great landing pages, because you find honesty and angles you wouldn’t find any other way (sometimes you find them after wasting a whole marketing budget).
But I wouldn’t say Reddit is ALWAYS the best for feedback. Bc I think we, Redditors, sometimes focus too much on the negative and are biased. Also, you don’t know who you are receiving “advice” from: If people love one thing is to give their honest opinion on something they don’t know shit about.
That’s why I use LinkedIn feedback to consider opportunities or even a little bit of motivation (I launched successful ideas that Reddit told me not to or that were idiotic) and Reddit to help me handle objections and be realistic about my ideas (thanks to Reddit comments I’ve built 20%+ conversion rate landing pages).
What do you think?
Post your idea on LinkedIn to get motivated. Post it on Reddit to get humbled.
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Special snowflakes should develop a thicker skin. And learn to use a search engine.
The ideas posted to Reddit are like “Web Design” or “Power Washing” or “Toy Store.” Not one blessed detail … nothing about competition, value proposition, the potential customers or market conditions … just the two words.
Apparently, commenters should build a business around these two words, as the special snowflakes did all the hard work picking something they’d be interested in pursuing.
You don’t know who you are getting advice from. Period. Just like you don’t know who is posting the idea. That seems fair.
There is a term for the kind of unconditional positive regard which slants towards the manic optimist: Enabling.
And let’s just mention the billion-dollar ideas people won’t post for fear big scary corporations search forums for brain farts. They post they have an idea — they just can’t write word one *about the idea.* And they want sound advice in return. Then there is [this kind](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/fgyy6u/why_has_this_type_of_business_not_been_started/). Of the ‘never existed before’ ideas actually disclosed here, about none stood up to a minute on a search engine.
As usual, there isn’t high ground in these discussion topics. Just the thin skin of the special snowflake, emphasis on *flake.* Please launch at your earliest convenience. You people are going to get a real kick out of Yelp reviews.
Tried reddit for feedback, wont be doing that again
Yeah, LinkedIn is for ego boosts, Reddit is for reality checks
It’s not just that reddit is anonymous and draws out the worst in that specific kind of personality that chooses to be a actively replying forum dweller (the bulk of people here is just losers and desperately hanging on to it), it’s also that LinkedIn is a payed platform that dos not need a negativity bias to generate clicks to raise view counts on ads.
LinkedIn actually has a heavy positivity bias In its algorithm resulting in some hilariously plastic posts going viral, that’s its downside, as nothing is perfect.
Clearly the first time I talked about [Kaptr.me](http://Kaptr.me) on Linkedin, I received a lot of encouragement. While on Reddit it was… More direct we’ll say haha
Maybe you’re posting in the ‘wrong’ community
IMO reddit is rife with mental illness. It’s like. 20/80 ratio on getting value vs senseless nonsense.