/r/History is a place for discussions about history. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is!

Moderation policy

All posts will be reviewed by a human moderator first before they become visible to all subscribers on the subreddit.

The full rules and guidelines for /r/history can be found here

Resources

Additional resources.

/r/History Introduction

/r/History Discord chat!

Rules

Rule 1: Keep it civil!

Personal attacks, abusive language, trolling or bigotry in any form is not allowed. No hate material, be it submissions or comments, are accepted. Follow reddiquette and remember the human.

Rule 2: No current politics or soapboxing

Submissions and comments that are overtly political or attract too much political discussion will be removed; political topics are only acceptable if discussed in a historical context. Comments should discuss a historical topic, not advocate an agenda. This is entirely at the moderators' discretion and violators will be fed to the bear.

Rule3: No historical negationism, denialism or alternate history.

Historical negationism.

We do not allow posts and comments about fringe hypotheses, false narratives, misunderstood, misrepresented history, genocide denial, and other disingenuous revisionism. They have proven to be magnets for those wanting to push a distortion of historic consensus and records. Engaging in historical negationism or denialism will result in a permanent ban. In addition, we also don't allow alternative historical theories

Rule 4: Comments should be on-topic and contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way

One of the most heard complaints about large subreddits is the fact that the comment section has a considerable amount of jokes, puns and other off-topic comments. While this is perfectly fine for subreddits of a less serious nature, we do not think this is acceptable for r/history.

We are a subreddit dedicated to knowledge about a certain subject with an emphasis on discussion. Therefore we think it is no more than reasonable to ask from subscribers to comment with that in mind.

Rule 5: Discussions limited to events over 20 years ago

Discussions about recent events will be removed. We want to focus on history itself and not provide history as a tool to make a point about the modern world.

Rule 6: Post in the right subreddit

Some content is better suited for other subreddits and might be directed there:

Images: r/HistoryPorn (or put them in a text post and provide proper context)
Specific questions: r/AskHistorians
Homework questions: r/HomeworkHelp
Personal material: r/HistoryBlogs
This day in history posts: r/ThisDayInHistory
What if history: r/HistoryWhatIf

Rule 7: Follow the rules and guidelines of reddit

Spam; in r/History we use the rule of thumb that if 10% or more of your submissions on all of reddit are your own content it is considered spamming. Read our full guidelines about self promotion
- Post or ask to post links to Kickstarter or other fundraisers, charities or social media campains.
- Attempt to manipulate votes.
- Doxx (post personal information about people).
- Post illegal, rehosted or plagiarized content.

Rule 8: Post from the original site.

Post from the original site. Submissions that are simply rehosted articles will be removed.

Rule 9: Text posts require actual research and must be sourced

Must be at least 250 words, not including links. And must contain at least two sources. No, Wikipedia is not a source. This is not a place to ask simple questions, they belong in the weekly short question thread. Effort must be put into the discussion being started, and they must start a discussion.

Rule 10: Titles of links should accurately describe the content not be sensationalized or misleading

Titles of link submissions should accurately describe the content, and not be sensationalized or misleading. Rule of thumb: for serious articles the original headline often is the best choice. When in doubt message the mods before submitting your link.

Rule 11: No using AI's to write your answers for you

Using an AI to write your question or answer is a serious lack of effort on your part. AI's might be able to pass entrance exams to universities, but they won't pass us here.

No Atrocity Olympics

Atrocities aren't an Olympic event, to be compared and scored according to how 'bad' they were. All mass killings, crimes against humanity, aggression, and repression are terrible, and while it is important to be able to contextualize the scope of a given event, boiling that scope down to a number to argue on a top-ten list or 'worst of' thread both denies the humanity of what happened and cheapens the severity of the crimes.

No Memorabilia, Family History, or Genealogy.

While that Stahlhelm that grandpa brought back from the War is in fact historical, experience has shown that posts about such items results in conversation more often focused on things like perceived coolness or identification than on any history it may represent. Ditto for great-grandma's sewing machine, old pictures of the family farm, or what have you. Therefore, we generally do not allow such submissions because they result in off-topic conversations. Please consider more topical subreddits.

This is an actively moderated subreddit and calls will be made at the moderator's discretion

This is an actively moderated subreddit, calls will be made at the moderator's discretion.

This rule is not in here because we plan to completely arbitrary remove things. It's only here to leave no doubt about what is already implied on basically any online community. At times we might make calls to remove posts that strictly speaking might have fitted our rules (albeit barely) but are not in the spirit of the rules.

A full set of our rules and guidelines can be found on our wiki

A full set of the /r/history rules is listed on our wiki. The list you are seeing is a reddit feature which is very limited and does not allow us to fit our full rules and guidelines.

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