[dredmorbius]

As others have noted: AskHistorians is one of the most aggressively- and well-moderated forums on Reddit.

Answers must be accurate, researched, supported, and factual. Generally, "scholarly". It's not uncommon to find posts with a thousand or more votes, and 100s of comments, all removed. The mods are looking for good answers. As are most of the readers.

The result may be frustrating for commenters, but that's really not the point.

I actually had an opportunity to answer on a subject which I've some familiarity last week, and got mention in the weekly wrap-up for it, which was kind of nice. A bit more than I deserved, really.

(I was talking trash ... but at least that was the topic.)