Hello all you AskScience readers, submitters, scientists, deviants, and students. I am very happy to announce the creation of a new sister subreddit AskScienceDiscussion.

The reason you should love this new subreddit? Lets say that you're in the middle of AskScience, you come across something that is really neat within the comment section, but it's going off on a tangent. An interesting tangent that you know will probably get deleted. Well, now all you need to do is make a new post in AskScienceDiscussion, post a link in the AS comments, and continue your tangent there. Easy as that!

It's also a place where you can ask questions like "Is there a history of superseded science?" or "I heard about this phenomena the other day, what can you tell me about it?" or " I am extremely interested in <subject>, how do I learn the basics?" or "What do you think is the most challenging aspect of your field?".

We have all of the AskScience tags within the new subreddit so you know exactly what field the people are in.

Moderation will be much more lax, but there will still be no tolerance for hate speech, pet theories, memes, religious debates, and completely unsourced debates. As usual sources are encouraged when talking about, and especially when debating about, a subject.

So please, come join us over in AskScienceDiscussion and follow your tangents!