When it comes to /sci/ence, you can see there are basically two

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When it comes to /sci/ence, you can see there are basically two types of posters. Those who know what they're talking about and those who don't. The people who know what they're talking about research a lot into a particular subject and know their shit, they are very well deep into Math and other very hard stuff of their field. Those who don't know their shit make embarrassing posts and get called out as pseudo-science, pop-science, highschoolers, dumb people in general.

I can see this is not the same with /his/tory and humanities, because it requires little technical knowledge to post anything. I could start a thread about the American Revolution and it would be hard to point out if I have little knowledge on the subject. There is no Math to history & humanities, nobody to test if I know all the Linear Algebra theorems, etc. What I am trying to say is that it's easy for anyone to pose as someone well read in History & Humanities, someone might think they know History because they play a lot of EU4 and HoI3, etc, anyone can post here with very little knowledge.

Assuming what I said is true, what do /his/torians think of this? Does it cause any problems to the community of Historians like those in college, or the History community as a whole, that most these communities are visited by people with little technical knowledge of the field? Doesn't it cause /his/ to be a generally low quality board when compared to, say, /sci/? What do you think of this in general?

As a Physicist, I am glad there is no EU4 or AoEII equivalent of Physics.