I've recently been trawling through old posts, trying to do some research on coins. One thing that I've found valuable that takes just a few seconds is clicking on people's usernames and looking at their recent post history. A potential red flag for me is that they constantly talk about one coin, or all their recent posts are in that coin's subreddit.
Another thing I sometimes find is subtle brigading. All of a sudden, five posts in one thread talking about a certain coin, and all five posters are frequent contributors to that coin's subreddit. This is harder to spot on well-established posts that have a lot of comments, but it still happens there.
Of course these people may have valuable insights, but it's helpful to contextualize their insights into their post history/potential bias/their own position in one coin.
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