Y'all are doing a bang up job, y'all keep unneeded information away from threads and keep things unbiased But, I vast majority of posts here are very interesting and I would really like to know the awnser too but everytime I go to a thread the awnser was deleted, to me it defeats the purpose of this sub and it's gotten to the point where it's getting ridiculous. Please either change mod rules or mods themselves.
Y'all are doing a bang up job, y'all keep unneeded information away from threads and keep things unbiased
Please either change mod rules or mods themselves.
Thank you for the kind words and let me assure that we do not plan on revising our rules or changing the mod team, since our mission is to provide our readers with in-depth answers backed by good sources. Let me also assure you that what you don't see in the "graveyards" is 95% people asking about the missing comments and insulting the mods. The rest is either incorrect, jokey or otherwise unacceptable. When a comment which might answer the question, but does not meet the standards of the sub, appears, we ask that person to expand and if they do, we approve it. If you come here for the level of answers we expect on AskHistorians, then you should not be surprised by our style of moderation. Furthermore, if you indeed are an avid reader of our sub, then you should know that there is plenty of answers to great questions every day in threads which do not require our attention at all. It's only when our sub hits /r/all, when we have to deal with an influx of incorrect answers.
Your comment is self-contradictory:
Y'all are doing a bang up job, y'all keep unneeded information away from threads and keep things unbiased
Yes, mods are doing a great job and they do do this.
But, I vast majority of posts here are very interesting and I would really like to know the awnser too
Yes, most posts are interesting, we'd all like to know the answer to many questions.
but everytime I go to a thread the awnser was deleted,
mods delete answers that are not up to subreddit standards, which keeps away unneeded information and keeps things unbiased; they delete answers that do not answer the question. That's why you love the sub.
to me it defeats the purpose of this sub and it's gotten to the point where it's getting ridiculous.
No, the moderation achieves the purpose of the sub, there are no genuine, quality answers hiding behind those "deleted" tags.
and it's gotten to the point where it's getting ridiculous. Please either change mod rules or mods themselves.
Change the mod rules and you won't have the sub you liked in the first place. Change the mods and you'll either have the same rules, or you'll have bad enforcement. In either case, I think you're looking for /r/History.
There is literally a thread pinned to the top of the subreddit right now which tackles the persistent and annoying impression infrequent visitors have about a lack of answers. The main take aways are that popular thread almost always get answers, it just takes some time, and that the overall response rate is a tad under 40 percent, which is pretty solid, especially when you consider that, if I remember right, studies by others show that Reddit wide 50 percent of threads get ignored. It would be awesome if everything got an answer, but even a significant relaxing of the rules would almost certainly get us no where close to 100 percent coverage anyways!
The main thing to remember is that it takes time for an answer to be written, and at the end of the day, everyone contributing is an unpaid volunteer using their free time.