[umanwizard]

This is typical of /r/AskHistorians , not Reddit as a whole.

They have an explicit policy of removing any amateurish or unsourced answers, in order to keep quality high.

[msla]

And they still get things drastically wrong sometimes:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190825021639/https://old.reddi...

[Judgmentality]

Doesn't that imply that the rest of reddit which is less heavily moderated has more low quality comments?

[umanwizard]

Yes, and IMO it really does.

[mdorazio]

Yes.