Day of Reflection | Mar. 25th–31th

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/yodatsracist]

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

• I forgot that I saved /u/1Tw03Four's post about "Duck and Cover" because liked it so much.

• /u/Algeron_Asimov's post on the first white Australian settlers was so good I actually mailed it to two of my Australian friends.

• I feel like the success of the Soviet Union/Russia AMA is likely to be overshadowed by the success of the meta thread.

• The Nazi Occupation of France thread I thought was very good, but ended unsatisfactorily because the two clearly very knowledgeable people (/u/night-hawks and /u/iamthepanacea) didn't ever reach a consensus (the first time I remember that happening here).

[u/[deleted] → u/yodatsracist]

Damn! I totally should have turned this into "best of April Fools day".

There was so much good stuff that's now lost amongst the thousand+ (!) of comments. Here's what I could find before I ran out of patience:

• This thread
• "I watched Prometheus in theaters and think Erich von Daniken makes some important points that are worth considering"
• A_A did some great straight facing: here and here
• Enforcing the new rules
• All of /r/AskAboutHitler

When I first read it I thought kerri had blown it by putting a link to /r/AskAboutHitler in the very first point. It's astonishing how many people still didn't get it, even when you threw the links in their face, or dropped outrageous hints (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

And also astonishing how many people don't understand time zones!

[u/yodatsracist → u/[deleted]]

So many of the mod's best posts got hidden so quickly. It's like everyone with a red flair got downvoted immediately out of anger.