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MetaAll right, badhistory. Let's talk. (self.badhistory)

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It's Friday afternoon, and I've got about ten minutes left on my lunch hour as I write this, but I feel like it's necessary to get something out there in this uneasy quiet that has settled on the subreddit.

A little bit of background about me: I'm a dude that lives in Idaho. My primary occupation is in IT, but I dabble in history because I think to understand who you are, you have to know where you come from. Part of that is because I don't know exactly where my family line comes from; my paternal ancestors, the ones who gave me my last name, peter out in northern Tennessee in the 1870s, and there's only vague supposition and family oral legend about how we ended up with our last name. Predictably, it contains crime, intrigue, and illegitimate children, and might be 100% complete bullshit. The other part that truly inspired me was seeing Abraham Lincoln's hat in the Smithsonian, and being unable to get the idea that it could tell some amazing stories if it only had a voice out of my head.

If you're still awake at this point, good!

Let's be honest for a moment. Things are changing around here. Some moderators have gone, some have stayed, some are new (like me. Hi Mom!). There are concerns about the community here, that we've lost some of that AskHistorians After Dark feeling, that maybe we're not focusing on the bad history that's been posted so much as we're focusing on those smug bastards the users who don't have it quite right (or not at all right) being wrong, that civility is on the wane.

I am interested in thoughts. How are you feeling about BadHistory? What makes you stay (or, conversely, has you leaving)? What would you like to see? What do you not like to see? How would you fix the things that you feel are broken?

I'm not putting on my moderator suit because it's still being sewn together in the back, but the rules are still fully in force for this. Be civil. Be thoughtful. Don't be a dick. I don't want to learn how to smite people in my first 24 hours on the job, but since I am now LITERALLY HITLER, I know I can.

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[–]nachofHistory is written by a guy named Victor 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I am interested in thoughts. How are you feeling about BadHistory? What makes you stay (or, conversely, has you leaving)? What would you like to see? What do you not like to see? How would you fix the things that you feel are broken?

Feeling smug about knowing better than lost causers is a nice feeling, but ultimately empty. And it gets repetitive.

What I really like, what I came here for and what made me stay here, is the really well thought posts that teach me stuff I honestly didn't know, either because I fell prey to the popular misconceptions or because I just didn't know anything about the topic. The best example I can find is that one series about the myths surrounding the European conquest of the Americas.

I also really enjoy the existence (although I rarely read them) of the ultra pedantic posts about how the chair that appeared in the background in that one short scenein a show that didn't even claim to be historically accurate was from a different decade.

[–]el-b 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

hi