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Submission rules time! (self.BadSocialScience)

cordis_meluma social science quagmire[M] が 投稿 - stickied post

As many must have noticed, we're not a small baby subreddit anymore. We've got a decent number of subscribers, and yet we've never really enforced any semblance of subreddit rules or submission standards. As such, this subreddit has been stagnating a bit, and quality has been a bit low.

Well, we're going to change that with some new submission guidelines. We already started establishing some of it in a previous post, with a promise of finalizing new standards.

Here is that post.

  1. We are not lower-effort SRS. Low hanging fruit is hereby banned from this subreddit, because if we need a reminder on how Reddit is racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever, we can subscribe to SRS. Exemptions will be made if it's a firedrops-like submission (like this) and high quality, but you need to message moderators first.
  2. Certain subreddits and websites will be banned, because they are just that low-hanging. Namely, we're banning white supremacist websites and blogs, posts on "Fundies Say the Darndest Things", TRP and its network of subreddits/websites, AVFM, MR and related, and Chimpire subreddits. We know those are bad. Again, see point 1.
  3. Submissions here need at least one sentence to establish relevance to social science. This needs to be done within an hour of submission, otherwise it will be taken down. We're not looking for something like the infamous R5 explanations on /r/badhistory, but a sentence explaining why you submitted your post here and discussing relevance would be nice.

This applies to all posts from this point on. Previous posts will not be subject to this, but new ones will.

Happy submitting!

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[–]fps916 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I suggest adding AnCap to the list of low hanging fruit subs

[–]shannondoahAmartya Sen got Nobel because of his Hindu vilification fetish. 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

What about posts on tree kangaroos? Paging /u/Tiako ,to reply in his official mod uniform.

[–]TiakoCultural capitalist[M] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Tree kangaroos always accepted.

Also just as a general point, the one rule I am going to insist on is that we are here to have fun. A community that does nothing but complain runs the risk of turning very toxic very quickly. So "fun" submissions are still allowed. For example, /u/Plowbeast's recent post is not example of bad social science per se, but is rather a post that people who study social science may appreciate and find funny. These submission rules refer to the sort of bread and butter and don't mean we can no longer have fun.

[–]TiakoCultural capitalist[M] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The common theme in these new rules, indeed what they really boil down to, is that we prefer a diverse and rich diet of bad social science rather relying on a monoculture of easily harvested bad social science. As we know from comparative studies of hunter gatherers and early agriculturalists, the transition to easily harvested an plentiful forms of subsistence seems optimal, but quickly creates sets of demographic problems as well as the development of status hierarchies, as well as a lot of weird hangups about sex. So like the Aborigines of the Cape York Peninsula, who purposefully shunned agriculture, we will purposely shun the easily harvested fruits and encourage a more dispersed subsistence routine.

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