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Quality Contributions Report for October 2022

Y'all must be trying to kill me. The sheer volume of quality contribution reports, combined with the outrageous volume of text you maniacs generate every week, made this an astonishing month to be sorting through the hopper. By far the busiest month for AAQCs since I took over the task. This made winnowing them down especially challenging, and some very good posts simply didn't make the cut simply because the competition was so fierce.

Good job, everyone.

This is the Quality Contributions Roundup. It showcases interesting and well-written comments and posts from the period covered. If you want to get an idea of what this community is about or how we want you to participate, look no further (except the rules maybe--those might be important too).

As a reminder, you can nominate Quality Contributions by hitting the report button and selecting the "Actually A Quality Contribution!" option. Additionally, links to all of the roundups can be found in the wiki of /r/theThread which can be found here. For a list of other great community content, see here.

These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful. Here we go:


Quality Contributions in Culture Peace

@problem_redditor:

Contributions for the week of September 26, 2022

@PmMeClassicMemes:

@KulakRevolt:

Battle of the Sexes

@Tanista:

@problem_redditor:

@Ben___Garrison:

Contributions for the week of October 3, 2022

@Primaprimaprima:

@FiveHourMarathon:

@FCfromSSC:

@urquan:

Identity Politics

@Stefferi:

@urquan:

Contributions for the week of October 10, 2022

@urquan:

@Amadan:

@Chrisprattalpharaptor:

Battle of the Sexes

@VelveteenAmbush:

@sodiummuffin:

@JTarrou:

@bsbbtnh:

Identity Politics

@georgioz:

@gattsuru:

Contributions for the week of October 17, 2022

@MadMonzer:

@Minotaur:

@faceh:

@Butlerian:

@FCfromSSC:

@hydroacetylene:

@urquan:

@Eetan:

Identity Politics

@Hoffmeister25:

Contributions for the week of October 24, 2022

@urquan:

@johnfabian:

@LacklustreFriend:

@FCfromSSC:

@DaseindustriesLtd:

Battle of the Sexes

@cae_jones:

@SSCReader:

@Hoffmeister25:

Identity Politics

@FCfromSSC:

@Tanista:

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@Carlsbad made a series of quality posts over the past week, but sadly, it appears he has deleted them all. I wonder if he will repost them to his blog.

This doesn’t assuage my initial impression that he was more interested in evangelizing than discussing. Did he respond to any of the thorough criticism? If not, I certainly hope he goes back to include them on his blog. It’s a more appropriate place for monologues.

No, which is why I didn't bother responding to anything he wrote. If a former Trump Administration official wants to post articles here that were originally published elsewhere, fine, but this isn't a distribution platform, it's a discussion platform, and I'd expect that they'd at least want to engage with the community and defend their position from criticism. Instead he posts an article that gets picked apart even by people who I would normally expect to agree with such an argument, and not only refuses to respond but deletes the post outright, the equivalent of flipping over the gameboard. Not that I would have expected him to respond much in the event that his article was received with gushing praise, since the whole account came across as geared more toward self-promotion than desire for discussion.

Agreed in principle. Though the deletion was apparently a mod-driven penalty for ban evasion.

Was it deleted by him? Usually it’ll show as deleted by author but the whole thread disappeared including replies.

Was it really the same carlsbad?

There were some good points embedded in there, I think, but it was insufficiently adapted to the audience. I know a lot about the DR and the history of RW thought and so on and was still somewhat confused.

I don’t think it was stylistically the same as that Carlsbad.

verbosity is not the same thing as quality.