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Quality Contributions Report for August 2024 - Happy 2nd Birthday to the Motte!

Happy birthday to us! Hard to believe we've been the Internet's leading (possibly only?) independent user-funded (ad-free!) open political speech forum for two whole years. @ZorbaTHut, what a remarkable framework you've constructed; everyone else, what remarkable things you've constructed on that framework. Thanks for hanging out with us and getting into very kind, respectful, politely-worded fistfights about anything and everything under the sun.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

(Proverbs 27:17)


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 to the Main Motte

@FCfromSSC:

@Glassnoser:

@cjet79:

@WhiningCoil:

@Dean:

@100ProofTollBooth:

Contributions for the week of July 29, 2024

@wqnm:

@Astranagant:

@Tophattingson:

@Felagund:

Contributions for the week of August 5, 2024

@RandomRanger:

@Felagund:

@naraburns:

@SSCReader:

@DradisPing:

@gattsuru:

@100ProofTollBooth:

@urquan:

@faceh:

@felis-parenthesis:

Contributions for the week of August 12, 2024

@CrispyFriedBarnacles:

@Dean:

@MonkeyWithAMachinegun:

@DirtyWaterHotDog:

@blooblyblobl:

Contributions for the week of August 19, 2024

@YE_GUILTY:

@Grant_us_eyes:

@Dean:

@2D3D:

@wemptronics:

@Throwaway05:

Contributions for the week of August 26, 2024

@RandomRanger:

@Goodguy:

@MartianNight:

@Tanista:

@gattsuru:

@Shiro:

@Amadan:

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gattsuru has 18 AAQCs.

naraburns has 14.

Urquan has 13

Walterodim has 8.

self_made_human has 7.

IGI-111 has 4.

functor, raakaa, and DTulpa each have 1.

Stevekirk and ABigGuy4U have none yet.

Overall seems like a lot of user overlap with the AAQCs, but matches what some people notice that it can feel a bit like a crapshoot which of their comments make it into the AAQC roundup.

There's certainly plenty of overlap, and you could imagine some of the posts that were not selected being so. That said, the posts that are selected feel noticeably more AAQC-y to me than do just the most upvoted ones, which seems to me to indicate that those categories do not overlap perfectly—it is not just a crapshoot, even if there's a component of randomness.

I did not mean to imply that the people mentioned here don't get AAQCs. I know that's false, some of them did this month. I just wanted to note that the ratio between posts that are well-liked and those that are of the sort that earn AAQCs seems like it might vary by user to some extent.

functor, raakaa, DTulpa, and urquan each have 1.

Not to toot my own horn, but I believe I have more than just one.

Lol ya I was way off. Sorry got you mixed up in a different tab. I'll fix it above