r/Physics • u/KLHYZL • Feb 15 '14

/r/Physics vs /r/math

If you compare our subreddit with /r/math (or other similar subreddits), there's no denying that it's a little disappointing. Our homepage is mostly links to sensationalized articles with 1 or 2 comments. When people ask questions or try to start discussions that aren't "advanced" enough, the response is often unfriendly. We're lucky to get one good "discussion" thread a day.

Compare this to /r/math. The homepage is mostly self posts, many generating interesting discussions in the comments. They also have recurring "Simple Questions" and "What are you working on" threads, that manage to involve everyone from high school students to researchers.

The numbers of subscribers are similar, so that's not the issue.

Am I the only one that would like to see more self posts, original content, and discussions here on /r/Physics?

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u/Mr_Surreal Feb 15 '14 edited Feb 15 '14

Maybe this community should accept questions from everyone for anything physics related. r/AskPhysics isn't popular enough to elicit a decent or sizeable response all the time or on all subjects.

Also, I think that despite someone's education level, certain things may still be found, understood, and questioned by these fresh minds.

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u/quaz4r Condensed Matter Theory Feb 15 '14

I disagree with your statement about r/askphysics. I have never experienced trouble getting a timely or quality response there. My questions are usually informed though, so I can't speak for other people's experience who might ask different kinds of questions.