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Annoucement: On Tueday, May 28th, Laszlo Montgomery of the China History Podcast will be doing an IAMA thread here in /r/History. Also, please see the sidebar for info about other upcoming IAMA threads too.
Did you know Lincoln (who were pretty sure was not a space alien) had a secretary named Obama and Obama (yeah, okay. We admit it. He is a space alien) had a secretary named Lincoln?
Annoucement: Upcoming IAMA threads with persons of interest to /r/History:
- Tuesday, May 28th, Laszlo Montgomery of the China History Podcast at about 1 PM EST (10 AM PST).
- Wednesday, May 29th, Dan Carlin of the Hardcore History and Common Sense podcasts at about 6:30 PM EST (3:30 PM PST).
- Friday, May 31st, Mike Duncan of The History of Rome podcast at about 6:30 PM EST (5:30 PM CST).
- Saturday, June 1st, Lars Brownworth of the 12 Byzantine Rulers and Norman Centuries podcasts, at about Noon EST.
The Rules
A) Respect and tolerance. No hate material, be it links or comments, are acceptable. All controversial or possibly insensitive materials should include a thorough bibliography of sources. History is not found on a single blog - track down your sources before you make proclamations. This is subject to the discretion of the moderators.
B) When posting, find the most relevant source. Blogspam is not acceptable. Sometimes copy/pasting the first paragraph of an interesting blogspam post into google will help you track down the original source. This is also subject to the discretion of the moderators.
C) Responding to each other is a key part of discourse - do it with respect. Again, this is subject to the discretion of the moderators.
D) If you are having a problem with this subreddit, write to the mods with a full description of the issue as well as relevant links (to problematic comments, bad links, etc). The mods will respond whenever possible. Subject to our discretion.
E) Spamming, is, of course, unacceptable. There is no defense that will make it acceptable. Second chances/forgiveness will not be forthcoming. Did we mention the discretion of the moderators?
F) Downvote for irrelevancy, low content, or unhelpful content. Upvote for rich and interesting content. Moderators, discretion. Sort of.
G) Images need to be submitted via self/text posts!. Same deal.
H) Need help with homework or an assignment? Fine, but phrase your question in a, you guessed it, not-being-an-idiot way. Make some basic effort before asking. We will remove anything deemed to be too blatant a request to do your work / research for you.
I) Don't be an idiot. We really wish we didn't have specify this as a rule, but idiots demanded it.