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Quality Contributions Report for September 2023

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.


Quality Contributions in the Main Motte

@Fruck:

@ymeskhout:

@DaseindustriesLtd:

@cjet79:

@Londondare:

@self_made_human:

@FiveHourMarathon:

@raggedy_anthem:

Contributions for the week of August 28, 2023

@jimm:

@RandomRanger:

Contributions for the week of September 4, 2023

@ToaKraka:

@coffee_enjoyer:

@TracingWoodgrains:

@jeroboam:

@SSCReader:

All Moderators Are Bastards

@ymeskhout:

@Amadan:

@cjet79:

The Aliens Have Landed Gentry

@RobertLiguori:

@raggedy_anthem:

@hydroacetylene:

@ebrso:

Contributions for the week of September 11, 2023

@zeke5123:

@roystgnr:

@cjet79:

@screye:

Will the Real America Please Stand Up?

@satirizedoor:

@WhiningCoil:

@MathWizard:

Contributions for the week of September 18, 2023

@CanIHaveASong:

@FiveHourMarathon:

@Lizzardspawn:

@Soriek:

The Best Offence is a Good Defense

@Pulpachair:

@WhiningCoil:

@ymeskhout:

Who's Cheating Whom?

@MadMonzer:

@FCfromSSC:

@Meriadoc:

Contributions for the week of September 25, 2023

@JulianRota:

@kurwakatyn:

@functor:

@gattsuru:

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was it the same small group of people nominating all three posts because they were complementary

Well, all three posts arose in the same conversation, but multiple users nominated those posts. There was partial nomination overlap on two of the posts, but nominations on the third were not from any of the same users who nominated the other two.

have we rooted out a silent consensus among Mottizens?

In spite of what Hollywood, social media, and even conventional wisdom sometimes suggests, I do think it is the case that faithful sexual monogamy (or, at worst, serial polygamy) remains the standard expectation among American adults, and probably human adults generally. It is perhaps a little surprising, given the rationalsphere's reputation for acceptance (arguably, embrace) of polyamory, but I would be reluctant to agree that it is "heterodox" to expect fidelity within the bonds of marriage. Heterodox, maybe, to Notice and Condemn it in the public sphere, but still; sometimes I wonder if we need a way of clearly distinguishing when we're talking about the human experience (as experienced by actual humans) versus the Human ExperienceTM (as theatrically portrayed in legacy media, social media, etc.).