/r/AskHistorians

r/AskHistorians
Type of site
 Subreddit, Question-and-answer site
Available in English
Founded August 28, 2011; 7 years ago
Founder(s) u/Artrw
Website www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Users ~800,000 subscribers (as of September 2018)

r/AskHistorians is a subreddit on Reddit where users may ask questions or start discussions about history,[1] and is "one of the largest history forums on the internet".[2] It was founded in 2011 and has remained highly active ever since, having over 700,000 subscribers.[3] Unlike other Reddit communities, it aims to "provide serious, academic-level answers to questions about history" and is strictly moderated. The community has a strict moderation policy towards Holocaust deniers, in comparison with the more lax policies of Facebook.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Have Questions Only an Historian Could Answer? Try Reddit. Go Ahead, Ask Them Something". historynewsnetwork.org.
  2. 1 2 Breit, Johannes (20 July 2018). "We Banned Holocaust Deniers From Our History Subreddit. Here's Why Facebook Should Do the Same". Slate.com. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "/r/AskHistorians metrics (AskHistorians)". redditmetrics.com.
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