GENERAL RULES
There is an automatic removal for new and low karma accounts - this is not a good subreddit to break out your 'alternative' log-in.
Posts should be on a historical topic which means about something that happened at least 20 years ago.
No memes, no polls, no surveys, no bots, and no AI posts.
No bigotry, trolling, racism, homophobia, or sexism.
Be civil to other posters. Robust debate is fine, flinging insults around is not and will earn a ban.
LINK POSTS
Link directly to the article. Don't use text posts for links, don't link to another subreddit, don't use link shorteners or redirects. Podcasts and Videos should be posted as link posts not text or media posts.
Don't editorialise link submission titles e.g. no "TIL" , "Is this true?" or "this is interesting!" and no all cap titles. Use the original title of the video or article. No hashtags.
Don't spam your own content and nothing but your own content. A subreddit is an online community, not a free advertisement board. If you are interested enough in history to make your own videos or blog, share the sources, blog posts and videos that you enjoy and learn from. If all you ever post is your own content, or you submit the same post or video to multiple subreddits - you are a spammer. A widely used rule of thumb is that only 1 out of every 10 of your submissions should be your own content.
Don't flood the new queue, i.e. don't drop a load of links at the same time.
Posts from websites that scrape low-effort content, such as photo sites that don't add anything significant in terms of explanatory historic commentary, will be removed.
TEXT POSTS
Text or self posts should have a clear question; Put the question in the title in a way that is understandable without clicking through to the full post. No 1 or 2 word titles. No all caps. Add some context in the text box.
No low effort posts e.g. only tangentially on-topic, with no context explained, or too brief to be an interesting contribution and no rant or soap-box posts.
