I love AskHistorians as one of the most on-point and insanely informative subreddits that I know. Recently the abovementioned titles seem to be the only thing popping up on my front-page. I get the idea and I also understand than some of history benefits if it's kept alive by building a personal rapport with it. However, I feel it's getting a bit out of hand. Maybe we can at least work on reformulating the question or broadening it to other segments of the population?
I would be interested to hear what other subscribers to this subreddit think of this and what could be possible alternative approaches, without necessarily just forbidding these types of questions.
It definitely is getting repetitive, but on the flip side, the format does make for a fairly specific and clear question. And early on at least, I would even say original! It still has potential even, and with a bit of subverting could still lead to some interesting thing (the mod team was in agreement the question flipping it to a woman was a nice twist).
What I will say though is that as a question gets stale, people get less interested in answering them, and the continued use of the pattern will likely lead to them going unanswered, unlike the early ones which got some really great responses (which likely helped get the momentum going). So that is something people should consider when using the format.
Speaking from our perspective as mods, we too have also heard some unhappiness from contributors and users about these questions and that this has developed into a "thing". We even talked about it in the latest Friday-Free-for-All thread.
These questions have now become a thing that will most likely disappear again soon (though I have to say, I am a bit disappointed I haven't had to remove I am a hot blooded foreigner and I've got a fever of a hundred and three. Baby, do you do more than dance? yet) but the "I am a ..." questions have long been, if not controversial, at least a point of minor disagreement among user and contributors on this site. Some people think they are immensely annoying (and every time one comes around, there is at least on person thinking they are super original by posting "No, you are not") while others like them.
Because we are historians, I think it's fair to talk about this question format and its relation to historiography and generally how we "do" history.
I'm generally more on the pro-side of the "I am a ..." questions. The reason behind this is that they are a chance not only to highlight the history behind the question but one of the major factors we grapple with in the study of history pretty much all across the board: The difficulty of accessing the lives of the people who make up the vast majority of all history: the ordinary people, the farmers, wage laborers, artisans, butchers, bakers and candle stick makers; the poor, the downtrodden, the women, and the slaves – in short, all the people who were not kings, generals and politicians and who made the whole place hum and work. Questions like what they did for fun, what their aspirations and every day concerns were, how they perceived themselves and the world around them is an immensely interesting subject, especially given that unlike kings, generals, and other "great man" figures, they comprise the majority of the people in history.
The problem here and it is a problem that has been famously addressed with the question Can the subaltern speak?, meaning that how do we address writing about people who themselves have left no writing but have only been written about by others. Where we can address them and their perspectives – such as in the case of The Cheese and the Worms or The Return of Martin Guerre (if you haven't, check out the book or at least the movie. Seriously, it'll be worth your time) – the "I am a ..." question gives us the chance to share what can be gleaned from these works of scholarship and from the study of the historical perspective of the "ordinary" person. Plus, it is immensely refreshing, in my opinion, that through the thick of all the questions about what Adolf Hitler liked to have for breakfast and what he thought about hat fashion, there are questions that take into account that history is more than just the story of men like Hitler, Churchill, Stalin etc.
On the other hand – and here's where we get to the criticism of these questions – many who don't like them assert that questions of similar content and with a similar focus could be asked be better and the "I am a ..." format always includes both elements of presentism, meaning that they project things we do today back in the past like "going out with your mates", and are still pretty limiting, as for example the latest wave of "hot blooded questions" for the most part completely left out women of the equation (save a few which have not been upvoted much).
And they are right in their criticism: Many of these questions imply certain behaviors as anthropological in the sense of eternal, natural, and present throughout history as well as again limiting the scope of questions to the historical subjects the asker can imagine while those who are usually not afforded much of a subjectivity in current social narratives are also left out of these questions.
So, indeed, these questions can be formulated and asked better (as can the Hitler questions btw.). At the same time, this is something contributors can address (as has /u/Tiako in the Roman version of this questions that started it all) and is also among the reasons why we as mods would not disallow these questions as we won't disallow the Hitler questions (be warned though, there is a limit to what we are willing to accept in terms of these questions in the name of common decency. "I'm a member of the Einsatzgruppen. How can I unwind after killing 30.000 Jews?" will not fly here. Period.)
Our general philosophy in terms of questions is to approach it very light handedly. After all, people are here to have their questions answered and we give questions a lot of leeway, including allowing those with false premises. We are here for education after all and limiting questions heavily to the ones we want to be asked would not really serve that purpose at all.
So, maybe it would be time for us to re-run and/or re-write some tips on how to ask better questions (or as Zhukov put it once to make not-stupid-question not-stupider), including a specific address of these kinds of questions.
I'm a hot blooded young historian of the early twenty-first century hitting the booths of the American History Association for a night out with my cohort and I got my CV burning a hole in my totebag. What kind of vice and wanton pleasures are still available to me?
At the age of 28, I feel old for asking, but what is a "hot-blooded young man question"?
Now, get off my lawn!
I always wondered how many of those questions were aspiring historical fiction authors looking for some research help
100% agree with this, it's getting old and it's the same thing over and over without much variations. There's more than "hot blooded young man" throughout history what about priests, tailors, farmers, scholars, women, ect that can be asked
It'll pass eventually... I don't think that it's gotten so bad as to require actual action from the moderators (in case this is implied). These posts get upvoted, that's why they are on the frontpage. If you are interested in broader segments of the population then ask it within the threads or post a new question. I think this is only fair.
Mea culpa.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am so very sorry. If I had known it would turn into a meme, I never would have posted it. I think the reason it has drawn an interest (aside from the way it's phrased) is that we don't know much of what average person did for a night life throughout history. It make sense though- literacy was limited in most societies throughout history and the cost of papyrus, parchment, vellum, inks, etc was high. Why would any literate person care to write about Varrus, the baker's 20 year old assistant, as he and his buddies go around Pompeii for the evening eat, drink, roll some bones, hire a prostitute for an hour, and stumble home? In some sense, it's so common, why bother committing it to a scarce resource like paper? But our interest to learn about common people like ourselves throughout history is still there though. The catch is, we may never really know much beyond eating, drinking, whoring, watching fights/games, and gambling. Considering that this is all stuff we do in modern times, it would seem our nighttime diversions and entertainment are fairly ubiquitous in an open society (to varying degrees of course). This is not to say that all people of all genders did this in all societies, but that forms of it are there in many of them. I am very grateful to u/Tiako for the excellent answer and resources she/he gave me.
I asked because I'm writing a historical fiction novel set in late antiquity. I've been reading a lot of sources about Rome and Roman life, but a lot of them were a bit vague about the specifics of common people, especially vice.
Edit: I do want to add that I wish the questions about women were answered. I look through the queues here a lot and most of the questions about women gain very little traction- I've asked a few myself and they got maybe an upvote or two, which means they fall off the radar quickly even if someone can answer them (this isn't about karma, it's about visibility). It might be a good idea for the sub to create a week in which questions about women are specifically promoted to get these questions higher so they can be brought to the forefront for a change, with the hopes of getting more interest in the subjects themselves permanently.
My feeling is is that whatever gets people excited for the acquisition of knowledge is a good thing
It's interesting because I was going to open a meta and applaud this format.
The title itself is an humorous prose for a valid question: "What kind of amusement and nightlife was available for people living in <PLACE> during the <TIME PERIOD>"
What I like in particular is the first person focus, which highlights a subtle problem: that first hand account for ordinary life events are already scarce, and even more if the subjects are just ordinary people.
If you're instead worried that this is a fad and will pass...
... I believe that yes, it will, as every other one before. :)
I really enjoy these questions, not only for the fascinating answers they elicit but also because they point to one of the key elements of the historical method: imagination.
The English philosopher/historian R.G. Collingwood best explained the significance of imagination in his 1946 work, The Idea of History. Unlike scientists, who can observe the phenomena they are trying to explain as they happen - actually witnessing the movement of electrons in a particle accelerator in real time - historians are put in the position of having to reconstruct events and scenes that took place a very long time ago.
Imagination, according to Collingwood, is a crucial tool they use to make this possible. In particular, they are constantly trying to re-enact the thought patterns of people who are long dead. "Would this kind of behaviour have been plausible?" "What would they have done in this scenario?" "How would they have reacted to this problem?"
While documentary evidence helps to determine the parameters of these answers, imagination is what allows us to test the evidence: far from being a flight of fancy, it allows us to construct an image of what is plausible.
And this is precisely what is happening with these hot-blooded young man questions. The premise allows us to take an imaginative flight into a particular locale, thinking about its historical particularities and wondering what might have been possible. As Collingwood noted, it is precisely this subjective and creative element of history that makes it appealing. Historical inquiry is open-ended; our imagining of the past changes as our own society evolves in new directions:
...in history, as in all serious matters, no achievement is final. The evidence available for solving any given problem changes with every change of historical method and with every variation in the competence of historians. The principles by which this evidence is interpreted change too; since the interpreting of evidence is a task to which a man must bring everything he knows: historical knowledge, knowledge of nature and man, mathematical knowledge, philosophical knowledge; and not knowledge only, but mental habits and possessions of every kind: and none of these is unchanging. Because of these changes, which never cease, however slow they may appear to observers who take a short view, every new generation must rewrite history in its own way; every new historian, not content with giving new answers to old questions, must revise the questions themselves; and—since historical thought is a river into which none can step twice—even a single historian, working at a single subject for a certain length of time, finds when he tries to reopen an old question that the question has changed.
This is not an argument for historical scepticism. It is only the discovery of a second dimension of historical thought, the history of history: the discovery that the historian himself, together with the here-and-now which forms the total body of evidence available to him, is a part of the process he is studying, has his own place in that process, and can see it only from the point of view which at this present moment he occupies within it.
I think this approach is a breath of fresh air, particularly since the implicit philosophy of this sub leans toward facticity, and an assumption that there is a clear line of demarcation between "correct" and "incorrect" versions of the past.
I find all these first person questions to be kind of creepy, but those "hot blooded" ones doubly so.
One thing that might help me to be a better historian is feeling like I have resources in getting started. I'm in a history undergrad program that is mostly male students and while I don't let the intimidation get to me too much, I do feel I ask fewer questions than when I take classes in other departments. The focus on the topics you're talking about here can definitely make me feel left out at school, but in order to forge my own way, the way that this subreddit can help me is by accommodating starting points. If I have a really, really vague question that's clearly leading to a less-served area of history, help me by suggesting directions for my questions themselves to go in?
I don't make a point to study only or even mostly women, but I do focus on food history, which is necessarily domestic. I'm equally interested in agrapolitics as I am in the home, but almost everything I encounter is focused on military history and government. I can post my own thread, but basically what I'm saying in this one is, "I'm so left out, I don't even know where to begin." So if the sub can be understanding that I'm starting a ways before the starting line, that would help me feel comfortable being active here and bringing those successes to campus.
I like them and any way people relate and interact with history.
Let the upvotes decide
All those questions that start with "I am..." look equally silly to me but oh well I don't see them as big deal. I would like them to stop, though.
As for the upvotes, generic and/or sex related questions are always going to have more upvotes than specific, interesting, niche questions. It's just how it works.
leave it to reddit to beat the shit out of anything remotely original or clever
I'm a hot blooded young Englishman of modern day England and I'm regularly hitting the pages of R/AskHistorians for an informative and educational night in and I've got gigabytes burning a hole in my modem. What kind of well cited and intriguing posts are available to me that aren't this paragraph, only with a few words changed?
Joking aside, as a 100% pure amateur who loves hearing your sagely words. I'm over here thinking "Well, I mean...yes, the first one was good. But this isn't even the 8th one in 2 days, is it?"
I'm a cold blooded young velociraptor of the late cretaceous period hitting the forests of Eurasia for a night out with my pack. What kind of vice and wanton pleasures are available to me?
Can we stop with the "can we stop" posts?
Just don't read them, for Christ's sake.
Maybe we can at least work on reformulating the question or broadening it to other segments of the population?
I dont get this bit, why dont you do that? The hot blooded questions ive seen have generated some quality answers about daily life in different historical settings.
I scroll past it.
And in answer to everyone whoever posed one of these questions,
No, you weren't getting any back then, either.
I agree. It just seems like a really complicated way to ask a simple question. I'd rather the titles of submissions get to the point, because in a serious and informative sub like this, "memes" can really take discussion off course.
As a non-historian who can never post here but reads every day the amazing contributions to this my favorite sub, I really value how strictly on topic discussions are.
The value of a question or topic should be in its thoughtfulness, not in its catchy wording.
I know it's a nitpick, but this is the last sub I want to see start showing the cracks of "popular sub syndrome," wherein attention grabbing becomes more important than the intention of the sub.
I feel like the problem with this sub is that the posts fall into one of three types.
The first could be characterized as "easily googlable".
The second is the "question so broad in time scale or scope that there's no real answer."
And the third is the type of question this subreddit was made for, which is the "there's maybe one academic in the world who could answer this and hopefully he's around today" post.
I am surprised these posts haven't generated a new subreddit yet (or has someone already created a r/hotbloodedhistory sub?). I do not think there is anything wrong with the question or format. The issue, for me, is just the frequency of the questions using the same format. Spaced out a bit, they'd be fine. As it is, I question if the posters are just trying to one up each other rather than actually provoke interesting answers.
OK, some back of the napkin math.
Since and including the first iteration of this question two days ago by /u/misyo, there have been 10 iterations of this question that I can find. In that same period, there have been about 300 other questions asked (that were of sufficient quality to not be removed by the mods). So these questions represent something less than one percent of the total questions asked in that time. Of course, because these questions get upvoted more than average, they're more visible than average, which is a reasonable thing to consider that I can't figure out how to quantify.
Here are the instances of this format that I can find. If you know of any more, let me know and I'll update this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/67x3cd/im_a_hot_blooded_young_roman_man_of_the_late/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/683y6v/i_am_a_hotblooded_young_british_woman_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/68fm2g/im_a_level_headed_young_purtin_man_of_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/68f71a/im_a_hotblooded_regency_lady_with_shillings/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/682fn6/im_a_hot_blooded_young_arab_man_of_the_early/
I find them to be interesting little insights into ancient cultures. I say keep them and expand them to a series of questions that start "I am a..." and allows for illumination of a part of an ancient culture (or maybe just recent past, you know for the questions about cultures that aren't ancient).
You know what, I didn't even notice any of these threads, so I went and checked the top posts for the week. And I've got to say that I found it really funny. Once I got to the "Nahuatl man with cocoa beans burning a hole in his pocket" I burst out laughing. Sorry, I know this board is known for obsessively taking itself seriously, but it's nice to lighten the mood occasionally.
Although a large influx of similar questions can be annoying, its like asking people to not ask questions about Vikings, or pirates, because they are popular and lots of questions got asked about them.
As others below have said, this trend will likely fizzle out soon enough, there are only so many times people will upvote the same stuff.
Though I think it might have sparked some interest in the (night) lives of commoners throughout the ages though. I've never really thought of what an average (young man) joe would do with his disposable income during the late hours of the day, and night. I've read (some) of the (translations) of the graffiti in Pompeii, and although I kinda smirked a bit at the writings, and how similar it is to today's bathroom graffiti. But I never really thought much past that, I never thought about what they were doing, I just assumed they were out drinking, maybe they would pay a whore, then go home to sleep.
While you're at it. I'm sick of the first person questions. Like, "I am a young man with .... I'm looking for ... what is my life like?"
I just don't understand who think that makes any sense. Can't you talk about historical people in third person?
Otherwise, I just skip topics that don't interest me.
I’m a hot-blooded young netizen hitting the subs of reddit and I’ve got a history question burning a hole in my curiousity... where do I go for quality answers if not here?
I think there's a really interesting way this relates back to the conversation in the friday free for all about the askhistorians presentation at the National Council on Public History's Annual Conference
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/682ta1/friday_freeforall_april_28_2017/dgv6vwr/
with /u/chikindiner's post pointed out a negative tweet about askhistorians
So [is] askhistorians for the academically-minded? (["Why didn't elves survive the transatlantic crossing?"] makes me say no, though I haven't looked up the answer.)
How much of this sort of outreach concern motivates anti "meme" questions versus the other reasons offered and how much is there a conflict between attracting new redditers with "fun" titles versus having outsiders see this work as legitimate and worth either participating in or just trusting and valuing?
Yes please, it makes the sub more like the rest of reddit only about males and bro culture
And also makes the precedent of making this sub about fads, that will hide real questions and not this low effort shit.
I'm a fan as it generates discussion and expands peoples world view. Perhaps a mega thread could be made for all nightlife questions in the future. They seem pretty popular.
As someone who doesn't regularly read this sub, those questions interest me enough to come here and puts me on the street in ancient cities and cultures. It's a fascinating way to approach this subject. Why would you want to get rid of it? I think it should be permanent. We should use this technique in schools.
Also, is anyone else considering that these questions are really just a cleverly disguised travel guide for the resourceful, Reddit faring time traveler??
What about a stickies post that says "I'm a hot blooded young man from _______ with a lot of _______ burning a hole in my pocket. What kinds of vices are available for me in the town of ________ on a night in the year _____?
I totally botched the format but if we had just one thread for hot blooded young men to go intellectually place themselves into the historical footsteps of other hot blooded young men, maybe we could keep all that hoot blood in one place.
And I think we all know the many benefits of lots of hot blood in one place. Blood for the blood god.
It's annoying, adolescent, and narrow-minded. The first few times, it may have been witty in a sophomoric way, but as it has become cliche it merely serves as a ready-made template for people to put their thoughts into, rather than formulating their own form of words suitable to their own specific question.
I find these sorts of lazy fishing questions to be uninteresting compared to the specific questions that drive deeper understanding and make /r/AskHistorians a special place. The leakage of banal memes just makes it worse.
I've always r/askhistorians is used by fiction writers as research. When you read the oddly specific questions it always feels like a novelist outsourcing their work.
I'd love to know if I'm right about this.
So start asking other questions.
Relax, let people post what they want. If you don't like it just downvote and move on. Simple stuff!
Who is ask historians for? The person with a question who doesn't have the access to get informative accurate historical knowledge? The historians or knowledgeable individuals who want to be able to share with the rest of the people? Or those who neither ask nor respond, but subscribe and read certain posts based on their own interests?
Honestly I like it, just like all cough memes it'll naturally run its course.
I think all questions like 'I'm an X in Y time period...' should be banned. So obnoxious. It would take five seconds to rephrase your question.
I love these questions
Hey, if memes are the way to get people involved in history, then let's use memes
Wouldn't it be better to find a question you would like answered and post it? This isn't a meta post so much as it is a sort of soft censorship post. The people voted democratically and those posts are currently getting attention. If you can come up with an interesting, compelling, historically driven question surely it will do much better than an empty post appealing to a higher authority about content of a popular question format.
Can you give a an example of what you're talking about?
I would be interested to hear what other subscribers to this subreddit think of this
Well they get upvoted....so I would imagine the subscribers like them.
I an a hot-blooded young man from /r/all.
What the fuck is going on here?
Hello everyone. Patient 0 here. I was the first person to copy u/misyo's innovative question. I can't lie - I did it for the points, and to clear up my blind spot on the history of Islam. I've been asking a lot of questions lately and it's actually quite hard make a good one. I think the lesson from this is to make something fun/light instead of academic. I'm aware of some guides for asking questions in the rules roundtables post, and I would certainly use/appreciate any new resource along these lines as /u/commiespaceinvader mentions in his post.
Can I ask the mods, why do I click on nearly every submission made only to find lots of deleted posts, and one uninformative one at the end? Seems like there's nothing of value ever answered in the submission. Forgive me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly new to this, and it's all I've seen so far. Thanks.
One thing I do appreciate about the "I am a" format of questions is that it does seem to get relatively specific questions, with the asker usually doing a good job clearly defining when and where and in what part of society they're asking about. So many questions around here are asked so vaguely that it's not even possible to answer without another round of clarification; these "hot-blooded" series, at least, are all specific enough to actually be answered.
I think they're pretty funny. But most are very difficult to answer.
There is actually a handy downvote button for posts that you don't like.
Maybe we can at least work on reformulating the question or broadening it to other segments of the population?
I enjoy the comparison of one specific circumstance over different times and locations. Changing gender and time at the same time for example, would diminish that.
Repeating the same questions for women, different classes, age, etc. could of course be interesting, but I doubt you'd be happy about that.
Maybe we can at least work on reformulating the question or broadening it to other segments of the population?
Go right ahead and ask whatever you want to know. Other people are asking what they're interested in and sparking discussion. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.
Does anyone think there is merit in creating a flag or flair that would mark a post as being of a somewhat more casual nature and not necessarily calling for an historian to spend 2 hours formulating a precise, referenced response? Here are some ideas:
Edit: The poster could apply it and a mod could apply it as appropriate.
Edit2: I'm not trying to tell you what to read and what not to read. I'm not applying censorship. I'm not suggesting that a question given a flair must not be taken seriously or have a thoughtful answer. It's a basic assumption that any question answered by an historian is given a thoughtful answer, however long or brief. It's a basic assumption that you read what you want. I'm completely aware that some questions asked in jest or without much thought can have great answers that many people appreciate and by which they are enriched.
What I'm attempting to propose is that the mods consider a set of tags that will assist readers. Obviously I've presented some humorous or cheeky options but there are meaningful uses, examples of which I've given below.
If people vote it to my front page, then so be it. I'm not that bothered by it. I don't need to click on it.
What reddit needs, imo, is a "don't show me this thread ever again" button. Because otherwise something you don't want, might take space on your frontpage.
I like them
I would think that because so much of the text is the same, you could take all the common parts and put them into a tag (I'm a hot blooded young man in ___ at time ___, what vices etc). So people could just use the tag [hot-blooded] or something, and just say "this is the time, this is the place, go"
Maybe this is a little off topic and will probably get removed but I've noticed that some pretty low quality questions keep getting voted to the top. It's frustrating when I see silly questions get so much traction but then genuinely thought provoking questions don't get anywhere. I guess this sort of thing happens as a sub gains subscribers.
As a follow-up question, if I was a hot-blooded young redditor looking to rake in karma on a Saturday morning, what kind of question would I post to /r/AskHistorians?
Why not just ask the questions you want to ask and not police other's curiosity?
As an amateur historian (or at least one that has a history degree that unfortunately isnt used), everything is cyclical. These questions will come and go as the people asking them and answering them come and go. I see alot of it having to deal with the larger socio-economic realities of Reddit and its viewership. Most of this website is produced and consumed by "young hot blodded men" between the ages of 16 and 35.
Yes there are people older and younger then that, as well as female and other identifing genders, but the majority are young and male. Also most of the people on reddit arent historians, so questions "we" would like to see and answer are drowned out by the majority of the sites population.
While i like to see more variety too, i understand that matching interest with interest is hard enough in a random segmentation of the population, let alone a highly specific subreddit such as this.
Tldr; play on!
I enjoy these questions. Maybe a mega post if anything?
When I see a post that begins 'As a..' or even worse - '.... of reddit' I instantly seethe.
What are hot blooded young man questions?
Dude it's a fad. Just let it fade away
as an outsider can someone ELI5 what a hot-blooded young man question is?
If only we were allowed to ask for what the same scenario would be like in different eras in the same thread...
Agreed. There is no real definition of a hot-blooded young man. It is a made-up construct designed to oversimplify a topic to get likes.
I want to get rid of this pulls ALL lists. (Top 10 reasons squirrels love tennis - that type of BS).
Click-bait in general is shitty and a waste of time.
I openned the first one I saw, then have completely ignored the rest. Basically karma-whoring imo.
perhaps a megathread allowing contributions for various time periods and locations depending on the expertise of the contributor? That way you can just get all of them out of the way at once.
What do you mean by 'hot blooded young man questions'?
I can't figure out what this means at all, and no one in the thread has explained it (although a lot of people seem to know exactly what you mean)
EDIT for anyone else confused: Found an example myself here
Is anyone else interested in a sub reddit that has a bit more, and I mean a bit, lax rules on responses. It seems like as many questions get asked there are so many that are impossible to follow the rules and answer.
I THINK THEY ARE FUNNY please don't make them go away :/
I like them !
It's a hot-blooded young man website. There's not much you can do.
No, it's a terrible idea to allow these questions and they degrade the quality of the sub. This sub is unique and prospers because of strong moderation and strong rules which breeds academic interest.
Think of the question, "I'm a hot blooded Babylonian and made a poopie in my pants, where does it go?" Definitely a valid question, however it could be worded better in a way that reflects the serious academic dexterity that goes into researching and answering the question. Perhaps there should be a new rule addressing how questions are phrased.
Maybe we could have this as a weekly post. Every Wednesday or whatever. We have another hot blooded male roaming the streets of x.
It doesn't matter because nearly every post is devoid of comments due to overly strict moderating.
Additionally, can we stop with the "I am a..." questions? No, no you are not.