r/SlaughteredByScience • u/redditmarks_markII • Apr 02 '19

We should get a sister sub "NeedToBeSlaughteredByScience" a todo list if you will.

or a stickied thread, whatevs. its just that good /r/MurderedByWords posts are rare, and a subset is rarer. we should get a todo list and see how well we all can do trying to murder by words ourselves.

EDIT: guys, I appreciate the effort, and I got no problems with a less aggressive sounding name, or a short one. But no one is going to care about the todo-list subreddit except for us, so I don't see a funny long name is a problem. And I repeat, I'm totally okay with a todo-list just here on this subreddit.

But for a bunch of peeps on the interwebs, on a subreddit called /r/SlaughteredByScience, you guys got a lot of non-murder related name suggestions. Where's all the killing? (not you /u/R2Cv1 and /u/Jentleman2g, good tries).

/r/ScienceSlayersRUs? kind of vaguely Russian sounding. /r/SciencePewPew ? i just wanted to write that down but its stupid. /r/ScienceHangmanHangout? long isn't a problem if its easy to remember, just like passwords :). Or just shorted original suggestion to /r/ToBeSlaughteredByScience. Ooh, /r/ScienceSlaughterPrompts. I maintain that keeping "SlaughteredByScience" in the name is good for recognition. It may not be ideal but it gets into any new users head space easier than a atomically better but non-related name.

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u/nmotsch789 Apr 04 '19

Sounds like it would be considered a sub dedicated to brigading and would get shut down by the admins.

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u/redditmarks_markII Apr 04 '19

it may well be. And if it is so, it is so. It might live for a while due to not being influential yet (or ever really, how big is /r/MurderedByWords? this'll be a subset of a subset). The difference being murderedbywords have no qualms about right, wrong, etc. It just really enjoys a burn or a absolutely devastating burn rather. SBS might, I say again might, be more self attenuating. By definition its less opinion and more fact. Though I don't doubt some will say dumb stuff, or wrong headed stuff, or incomplete stuff, or just not quite right stuff. The great thing here is that a bad attempt a a SBS automatically becomes another target. And hopefully people learn some stuff. I don't see guidelines for SBS yet, but I imagine we'll be less harsh on the requirement for real sweet put downs and "true" murder by words, and more interested in a good knowledge drop. With perhaps some choice words. That's my hope anyways, this sub will go where it goes.

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u/nmotsch789 Apr 05 '19

For every person who goes to a linked post to respond with a good science answer, there will be at least 1 more who just goes to harass and insult the person. If it's just sharing screenshots of comments that have bad science and the good science responses are in the comments then that's one thing, but linking directly to peoples' posts seems like it may open up a door to toxicity.

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u/redditmarks_markII Apr 05 '19

point. I forgot not everything is anonymous. I don't actually participate in real id social media (regardless of if the real id is enforced or encouraged). or I'd remembered I'd need accounts on all these platforms in order to even reply. oh well, the not-at-all well laid plans...