Is reddit possibly the worst place to discuss anything at a

Reddit is not very good for discussion for several reasons, they make it easy to have multiple accts and upvote your own posts while quickly downvoting other's posts. Once you get a few downvotes your post is hidden. People will mindlessly upvote anything that sounds convincing or already has been upvoted. The most popular answers to questions will be the top google result, regardless of whether it's the correct answer for the question, so it's an awful place for advice. Mods of a forum have the ability to award 1000 upvotes to a post to help promote it, so if you ever wonder why a post got popular very fast, that's probably why. If you reply more than a few hours after something is posted, your reply will probably be ignored. If you reply more than a day, you'll probably be ignored or criticized for responding to an old post. But sometimes I find interesting and insightful perspectives which make it worthwhile.  Edit, oh, and it's overrun with bots that will downvote you on certain topic. A few times I've gotten more downvotes than all the upvotes within a post combined, within a short time, no way that happens except with bots.