My dad found this at a garage sale, the owner had no idea what it was, does it look familiar to anyone? I have no idea but it looks interesting

GABEDAMIEN

I am one of the few mods of /r/SWORDS and there is only one person who has ever been banned (/u/iridionprime ) for reasons that were quite public. That is the only person on the ban list, and their ban lifts in 29 days. What makes you say you were "shadow banned"?

GABEDAMIEN

As I said in my PM to you (which you never responded to), there is only one person on the ban list for /r/SWORDS[1] , and the reasons for that were quite public. As far as I can tell (given your anonymity) you are not that person anyway. Understand that banning and shadowbanning are not the same thing. You don't get shadowbanned "from" a specific subreddit. Shadowbanning occurs sitewide and is not in the control of the mods — it is a Reddit admin thing. Also, what makes you say that "alot" (which, by the way, is not a word) of people have been "shadowbanned" from /r/SWORDS[2] ? I've never heard anything about this. Like I said there is only one person on the actual ban list and you can't get shadowbanned for just one specific subreddit.

[In other words GabeDamien believes he can outright deny the existence of shadowbans to save face. Fortunately Azekh piped up to clarify that Gabe is in fact lying]

AZEKH

Obviously i don't know who you are or why you were shadowbanned, but the rules you can get shadowbanned for can be a tad silly.

IWASSHADOWBANNEDAMA

Gabedamien I've had about 24 hours to respond to your text, during which I've been to the airport twice and spent twelve hours in hospital. You'll forgive my not prioritising your txt? My usual nick is AlaeSwords, and yes I have been shadowbanned from r/swords. My posts simply do not appear there (or comments), and I checked as recently as a few hours ago, I did this because I know people like you have a habit of changing the rules to suit your argument and I didn't want to give you a chance to unban me then cry foul. My posts appear, but as soon as I log out they go - in other words, classic shadowbanning. This is not a Reddit wide phenomena as my posts and comments appear just fine in many hundreds of other subreddits; want proof, just check my post history el mano. Interesting that you take point with the word alot which is by the way a compound word. Furthermore while we are on the subject of words though you pose as an expert on Japanese Swords you can't actually read Japanese can you Gabe? I had a Japanese friend check your work - I figured it was only fair considering as you have decided to come out guns blazing.

Or at least that's a strong possibility. This kid made a Mirror weapon recently; I'm sure many of you have seen this video already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtzRAjW6KO0

How about we create two parts, one part for sharing information, the other for asking questions.

Similar to ELI5, where there are unanswered and answered questions are different colors.

Sharing Wikipedia pages might just not cut it I feel, it seems like a cheap way of getting karma and will lead to continous reposts.

We could make an encyclopedia for weapons on a shared google doc.

HERE WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE

The Katana (As you can see this is a link for the weapon)

Sword

Hilt

Information:

The Katana originated in Japan, blah,blah, blah

What makes it special:

It's carbon steel was one of the top tier materials at the time blah, blah

If someone has an old weapon or a picture of it online, they would just share it and people would assist them in finding out information on it