Is it me or are we just recycling the same basic advice every day that we all know and agree with? We should: DCA, HODL, self-custody, ignore influencers, DYOR, etc. Is this basic advice still necessary here?

March 5, 2023 2 min read

I enjoy this subreddit. Every day, there are some great posts and comments that are unique and provide me with novel insights or perspectives, or just simply make me laugh. I also appreciate that news often hits here first, so I can stay up to date.

A significant part of this subreddit is concerned with “providing advice”, packacked in explicit advice posts, an experience, or a discussion. That is fine, of course. We can use good advice and I have definitely learned plenty here.

But sometimes I feel that a lot of the advice posts just restate what everyone here already knows and what is the dominant view of this subreddit (without a lot of informative elaboration). We should DCA, HODL, self-custody, ignore influencers, etcetera. I am guilty of this too sometimes, probably. Then the comments agree, of course. A lot of these posts are still quite popular, but in my view not because people learned something new, although there are probably exceptions. It just becomes an echo chamber of agreeing with each other.

At this point, should we just not select the best posts and combine them into a single source of information? Or have one big post every week for basic advice? Then we dont need to recycle the same content every day.