Is investing advice on Reddit structurally biased toward “take profits” and caution?

With so many of the stocks going parabolic, I’ve noticed a pattern on investing forums when someone asks whether they should sell a stock (e.g. NVIDIA, Micron, SanDisk) that has already gone up a lot: the most upvoted responses often lean toward caution: “take profits,” “don’t be greedy,” “nobody went broke taking gains.”

That advice is not necessarily wrong, but I wonder if there is a built-in asymmetry in how we judge investment advice.

If someone says “be careful and trim,” and the stock goes up another 100%, they do not look that irresponsible. They can say they were managing risk. But if someone says “hold” or “buy more,” and the stock drops 50%, they look reckless and may feel more blame.

So maybe public advice naturally tilts conservative because caution is reputationally safer when your own money is not on the line.

But in certain sense, telling someone to take profits or be cautious when there is still more room to run should hold equal weights for culpability if the stock does go up even further.

Do you think online investing forums are structurally biased toward “take profits” advice, or is this just sensible risk management?