>>12651750The difference between this place and any other forum is that in the other forums people are stifling themselves by having to maintain the reputation of their post history and just default to copy-pasting wikipedia articles like a search engine, whereas here you have the freedom to express yourself and say whatever you actually think regardless of how delusional it may be. In a typical math/physics forum, you would get a question and you would get the exact same recurrent answer throughout the entire lifetime of the forum, which is copypasted from sources you can already google in 5 seconds, and every deviation is ban worthy because deviating from the established academic authority is an act of trolling. That forum has literal zero purpose when you think about it, as in there's no point for either the midwit or the academic to be present there as they offer no unique service to each other.
/sci/ on the other hand provides answers that border schizophrenia but here's the catch - it also widens the boundary of possible answers to pretty much infinity. Which gives us the simple conclusion that given enough time of you reading through millions of schizophrenic ramblings and midwit takes, you will accidentally end up reading a post that will provide a novel insight for you that you cannot read anywhere else, whereas the stifled forum will never do that by design. You must let the monkeys type on the typewriter if you want them to eventually produce what you seek.
