Whats up there r/historical past.

So over the previous few years we have had numerous questions that fall on both facet of rule 9. That’s the guidelines about self posts, that are posts in that you simply write your self. What precisely decided what low effort/excessive effort was was variable relying on the mod who was it and what that mod had for breakfast. So we now have been considering of how to enhance rule 9 and determined to go along with one thing new.

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The brand new Rule 9 is beneath!

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**When submitting a textual content put up you need to develop on the title with a purpose to get the dialogue began. A hyperlink has content material to again it up, however in a textual content put up** ***you*** **write the content material.**

**Which means we anticipate you to have put in work in regards to the dialogue in query. Deal with it as if you might be writing the article, since you are in a self put up.**

**Should embody no less than two hyperlinks or printed references not together with Wikipedia or dictionaries, and so on. If it’s a query, these can be two locations you’ve already checked out whereas looking for the reply, if it’s a self put up these can be sources that are backing up what you say. Extra sources could also be requested through mod mail if we really feel like an individual is making numerous claims. If each sources are printed ones that are not freely obtainable on-line, they need to present no less than one digital supply the place somebody may get extra data on the subject as an entire as a studying alternative.**

**In query posts, not solely have they got to supply these sources, however additionally they have to indicate that they’ve gained one thing from them. “I’m searching for data on the mutilation of the hermae, Henderson mentioned that it was an assault on democracy, whereas Milford says that it had one thing to do with the phallus as a logo, I’m a bit confused on how this stuff join, however..” and so on. As a substitute of simply “I heard in regards to the mutilation of the hermae. Why did they do that? I feel it’s actually odd. Additionally lol that they had penis statues?”**

**As traditional every little thing is all the way down to Mod’s Discretion. In case you are offering a textual content that makes one of many mods go “hmm?” you may get the put up authorized with out following the precise pointers.**

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And that is it.

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For all of your shorter questions, they go in our weekly query thread which refreshes each saturday.

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Thanks for studying!