I often see a lot of investing stuff on forums and X, and honestly some of it is really good. Proper write-ups, real numbers, people who actually lay out the bear case and own up when they got it wrong.
But I still can't fully trust any of it. There's so much noise, and half the time I wonder if the person is just pumping a bag they already hold. Even the really convincing posts make me ask "ok, but what's in it for you?"
So how do you deal with it? Do you use these places for ideas at all, or just as a starting point before doing your own homework? And what makes you trust someone (familiar user, disclosing positions, how they reason) or instantly scroll past?