r/HistoryMemes

Keep Posts History Related

Please keep all submissions to the sub related to history and/or based on historical events. See here for the extended rules.

All submissions must be as historically accurate as possible.

Ideological memes are not allowed.

No Reposts

All reposts, similar and identical, of posts previously submitted to the subreddit are banned and eligible for removal.

Temporary bans will be issued to those who repost, with longer and possibly permanent bans issued to those who continue this behavior.

Rule 2.1

Crossposts are allowed as long as it is not a repost of a previous submission to the subreddit. Crossposts should also be marked with the flair "X-post".

Discrimination and Abuse

Any excessive sexism, homophobia, racism or any other form of discrimination will be dealt with harshly and mods reserve the right to impose bans without warning. Basically try not to be jerks.

Year Limit

All posts must include only subject matter which took place at least twenty years ago.

Anniversaries of historical events that are not yet 20 years old are not exempt to this.

Rule 4.1 - Meta use

Posts that either complain about Rule 4 or use Rule 4 as a loophole to circumvent the rule are not allowed on the subreddit.

Banned Memes and Formats

Certain memes and formats, such as "France Surrender" and "Hitler Suicide", and memes on the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, are banned on the subreddit. A full list can be found in https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/wiki/extended_rules/

Genocide and Atrocity Denial

Genocide and Atrocity Denial: Do not deny or defend genocides and atrocities. These include, but are not limited to; Holodomor, the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, Japanese war crimes and the Tiananmen Square massacre. Doing so will result in an instant permaban. Hateful historical revisionists are not welcome. Do not downplay or use whataboutism in discussion of atrocities and genocides.

No Brigading

No calling for meme wars or inciting subreddit drama. This includes brigading, raiding, harassing other subreddits and their users, or likewise.

Political talks in comments are okay, but linking to external sites in which are about it are not. Directly linking posts to political subreddits is not allowed unless it is linked in a non-participating manner. For more info see here.

Post memes

All submissions to r/HistoryMemes must be memes. If it's not a meme, post it elsewhere but here. See here for the extended rules.

Meta memes that pertain to the subreddit are allowed.

Quality Control

Memes must adhere to some basic standards. Unedited Screenshots, Excessive black bars, improper cropping, and low resolution/unreadable memes are banned from the subreddit. Please see the extended rules here for a full list and explanation on banned practices.

Karma Whoring

Memes asking for upvotes, awards, and user actions are not allowed. Please see the extended rules here for a full list

Rule 10.1

Posts found to be simply large boxes of information, text, or otherwise, that do not contain an attempt at humor are not allowed on the subreddit.

Low Effort Titles

All submissions to the subreddit must include a proper title that does not exemplify qualities signifying "low-effort", "Lazy", or "Karma-whoring". Please see here for an extended list on what is allowed.

Rule 11.1

If the title is removed from the meme and it ceases to be either a historical meme or a meme in general it is not allowed on the subreddit.

No 1900's onwards on weekends

Memes relating to events that occurred from Jan 1st, 1900 onwards, are not allowed on weekends (Saturday and Sunday Eastern Daylight Time).

Anniversaries of historical events are not exempt to this.

Meta Memes complaining about Rule 12 are (still) prohibited everyday.