Medical Advice and the Internet
I recently spent like two days going through my AskMe answers on Metafilter to find a particular reply of mine. In the process, I tripped across a number of things I liked or whatever and made note of some of the links. If it seems like I'm on a Metafilter trend, that's why, but this post is absolutely NOT intended to merely be me bitching about Metafilter. This post has a serious purpose broader than just Metafilter because this is an issue I've seen elsewhere, including some subreddits, and it's an issue I've tried in earnest to talk about many times on various blogs, to varying degrees of personal satisfaction. I'm quoting the Ask in question and some of the replies because link rot is a thing and it's entirely possible the mods could remove the post or Metafilter could go belly up and stop existing and this is a serious, serious issue in part because people with limited funds or inadequate medical insurance routinely post questions online hoping to figur...