Reddit megathread
A pinned or runaway thread that becomes the default citation during an incident. One URL, hundreds of comments, long half-life in AI answers.
Staff it. Post a status link. Don’t argue with every comment.
Afterward, publish a dated post-mortem the crawlers can fetch so the megathread is not the only document.
Examples
- Outage day: megathread is the Perplexity source for a week. Your status page was JS-only. Guess which one got quoted.
Related terms
AI brand safety is watching for answers that defame, hallucinate scandals, or mix you up with a worse company of a similar name.
Whether a bot executes JS. Many AI crawlers are worse at this than Googlebot. If the article is empty without JS, you are invisible.
Reddit citations are when an AI answer points at a thread or comment as evidence. They are one of the loudest unofficial ranking factors in consumer categories.
FAQ
Can we delete it later? +
You don’t control Reddit. You can add a better source and wait for retrieval to refresh.
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