#RedditBestOf celebrates r/bestof, the meta-subreddit (6+ million members) where users highlight exceptional Reddit comments—insightful explanations, hilarious stories, expert knowledge—creating curated collection of Reddit’s finest contributions.
Highlighting Excellence
r/bestof serves as Reddit’s quality curation, linking to outstanding comments across the platform. Posts follow format: brief description with link to original comment. Examples include: historians providing detailed historical context, scientists explaining complex phenomena, artists sharing creative processes, or regular users telling extraordinary stories. r/bestof makes Reddit’s depth accessible—without it, brilliant comments buried in obscure threads would never surface.
Expert Knowledge Sharing
The subreddit particularly values expert contributions: doctors diagnosing medical mysteries, lawyers explaining legal nuances, veterans sharing military experiences, industry insiders revealing trade secrets. These comments demonstrate Reddit’s value as knowledge repository where experts voluntarily educate masses. r/bestof nominations often drive traffic spikes to featured comments, sometimes causing “Reddit hug of death” to linked sites.
Quality Standards & Brigading
r/bestof enforces standards: comments must exceed certain quality threshold, no self-nominations, links must go to comment (not post). However, the subreddit faces criticism for brigading—r/bestof links drive mass voting to featured comments, sometimes distorting organic discussion. Linked comments’ karma skyrockets; disagreeing replies get buried. The hashtag preserved r/bestof’s role curating Reddit’s signal from noise despite occasional brigading controversies.