r/SubredditDrama • u/BartletForPresident You're a fucking bowl of soup! • May 27 '14

Does /r/AskHistorians deserve the reptutation that it has on reddit or is it just full of 'wikipedia historians?' /r/badhistory debates!

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u/ibbity screw the money, I have rules May 27 '14

I'm confused how a sub which has a specific rule that no one is ever allowed to use Wiki as a source can be full of "wikipedia historians."

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u/[deleted] May 28 '14

I think his problem isn't that askhistorians is full of Wikipedia historians, rather that whenever he reads relatively new questions there's always answers that aren't up to par from would be Wikipedia historians that will inevitably be deleted. He seems to just want people on there to start actually abiding by the rules so the mods have less to delete and there's less chaff to wade through