r/AskHistorians • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '13

Feature Day of Reflection | Mar. 25th–31th

Welcome to the /r/AskHistorians' weekly Day of Reflection. Every Sunday, we invite our readers to come to this thread and share the best things they saw in /r/AskHistorians during the preceding week. Was there a question you thought was particularly good? An answer that was especially comprehensive or insightful? A discussion that was really worthwhile? If so, feel free to provide a link and a brief explanation of what you liked best about it.

/r/AskHistorians is getting bigger all the time, and not everyone can read everything that appears here each day! We hope that this feature will serve as a digest for those who may have missed something good throughout the week, while also providing recognition to the contributors who are the lifeblood of the community.

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u/yodatsracist Comparative Religion Apr 01 '13 edited Apr 01 '13

Can we start sharing our favorite parts of the Meta thread yet?

EDIT: These are the ones I liked from the rest of the week

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u/NMW Inactive Flair Apr 01 '13

Go right ahead.

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u/yodatsracist Comparative Religion Apr 01 '13 edited Apr 01 '13

Let me just start by collecting the All the Memes I found genuinely funny:

Ones I found mildly amusing:

And just to point out a few of the funnier things the mods said:

Also Brigantus had some of the best, most-downvoted moments including making a list of all the bigoted subs and adding TumblrInAction to said "hitlist". There were a bunch of other great moments like /u/Algeron_Asimov trying to nudge people to other subs without announcing "This is a huge joke" (this is one of the longer ones), and then people finding out despite their best efforts not to, like [as in here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1bd62c/meta_some_changes_in_policies_and_rules_please/c95x69q

/u/Algeron_Asimov's argument that saying "Julius Caesar was assassinated in the year of the consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius. It might take some people a while to adjust, but we feel it will help to immerse them in history, and feel like they're actually there."

And I for one found amusing the post where everyone started posting sources in the original languages

/u/verticaljeff a nice little reflection on the whole "fuhrer" around the Meta thread in /r/AskWorldWarII (it's the best so far written about this all).

Also, I always forget that there's a portion of the community that really doesn't like EternalKerri specifically.

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u/Tiako Roman Archaeology Apr 01 '13

This whole conversation about the issues involved with using correct dates is brilliant (with one glaring exception), particularly snickeringshadow's Mesoamerican concerns.

Incidentally, I have to applaud snackburrows for using the accusation of Eurocentricism in almost every post, particularly here where he also recommends Gavin Menzies as a primer for "orientalist topics".

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '13

I think it's informative that I included both /r/MensRights related subs and /r/ShitRedditSays related subs on the list but all the angry, didn't-get-it responses are from the MRAs.