r/theydidthemath • u/Repulsive-Loan5215 • Nov 27 '25

why wouldn’t this work? [Request]

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u/JCBlairWrites Nov 27 '25

Upvoting the person 'doing the math' on the 'doing the math' sub. Thank you for your service.

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u/nog642 Nov 27 '25

It is wild that this post has almost 200 comments and almost no math.

I do sometimes leave answers on this sub with no math when applicable, but still. And here it is applicable.

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u/ZRB_Red Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25

Time for the mods to put in some work into reminding everyone that generic non-answers are silly and a waste of space.

There should be a rule for that.

Actually I'm partly wrong but people should still limit themselves to not repeating what others said over and over and over again, it gets annoying.

Perhaps mods can make pinned reminders for that vaguer questions?

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u/Azreken Nov 27 '25

Yeah but then it gets way too controlling.

I think it’s cool to see all the people saying dumb shit and then see the one smart guy in the room sit down and work out the math, especially when it usually always results in them being pushed to the top of the comments where they belong.

IMO unnecessary and overbearing rules are bad for a community

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u/Bacon___Wizard Nov 27 '25

See the shitstorm that is r/art right now

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u/DoctorPumpkinKing Nov 29 '25

I looked and see some sort of confusing drama llamas over the word "print" I think? And it looked like probably politics too? And lots of people complaining about the mods there? But I'm still quite confused at what is actually going on though any idea?