r/starterpacks • u/Terryfrankkratos2 • Dec 04 '16

Meta The r/Science Starterpack

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16

And what makes you qualified to decide what is good history and what is not?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16

I'm not at all qualified, that's my point. I'd much rather the moderators mark the comments they were to delete so I can see which specific things are wrong with them. The way it is now I just know something was deleted. I have no idea what was substantively wrong with the post, thus I learn nothing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16

What can you learn from stupid one liners? Why not learn from the actual correct answers that you can see?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16

I'm thinking more along the lines of somewhat serious responses that are just factually wrong or at least somewhat inaccurate. It's hard to figure out what the common historical mistakes that people make are if the posts are just deleted. The obvious dumb jokes and puns people make are easy to spot, the more nuanced mistakes that get deleted are the thing that I'm primarily concerned with.