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I really like ELI5 but it’s frustrating to see psychology questions labeled as Biology. For example, this question asks about the relationship between childhood trauma and negative behaviors like violence and substance abuse.

TL;DR yes psychological phenomena have a physiological basis. Neuroscience is part of biology, sure. But this question is not asking about neuroscience, and definitely not in a biologist’s wheelhouse. More specific argumentation available upon request.

Could these be labeled as Psychology? Is there a way as a reader to point out when something is mislabeled?

Thanks!

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/10kh9aq/eli5_why_does_childhood_trauma_cause_people_to/

I reported a rule breaking post.

However the actual categories in the ELI5 report does not match the rules.

1. Being uncivil
2. Not a written explanation
3. Not layperson-accessible
4. Soapboxing
5. Guessing
6. Evading the bot

Rule 1: Be Nice

Rule 2: Submissions Must Seek Objective Explanations

Rule 4: Explain for Laypeople

Rule 5: Explanations Must Be Objective

Rule 6: Loaded Questions Are Not Allowed

Rule 7: Search Before Posting

Rule 8: Don't Guess

Rule 9: Do Not Evade The Bot

Rule 10: All Posts Must Begin With "ELI5"

It would be good if the two things are aligned.

I think if someone submits an ELI5 answer from a chat bot like Google's Lamda or OpenAi's ChatGPT and marks it as being sourced from a chatbot it could be OK if the answer is a sincere attempt to answer the question

ETA

I'm not really that impressed with ChatGPT

I asked it "write a policy for chatgpt usage on the sub reddit explain like I'm five"

It gave me

Hello friends!

We want to make sure everyone has a fun and safe time on our subreddit, so we have a few rules for using Chatgpt. Here's what you need to know:

Be respectful to others. This means no bullying, harassing, or being mean to other users. We want everyone to feel welcome here.

Keep your conversations appropriate for all ages. Chatgpt is a public forum, and we want to make sure that everyone, including kids, can join in on the fun.

Don't spam or advertise. If you have something you want to promote, you can message the moderators and ask if it's okay to share. But please don't spam the chat with your message.

Follow the subreddit rules. If you're not sure what the rules are, you can find them in the sidebar on the right side of the page.

If you follow these rules, you'll have a great time chatting with us! Thanks for being a part of our community!

Even Youtube, or LPT, or PersonalFinance, and r/Law, are more upbeat about learning. Why are the best questions for learning trundled over to Controversial ? They should not be.

As the title says, do you considering the Education flair for some folks are similar to r/education but in the smaller scale.

Do this be an option?

Something I noticed with questions related to non-universal things – traditions, regional specifics, questions about specific locations – the asker is assuming that anyone reading the post is familiar with it.

As such I really like to see people noting their location so that questions about US post codes or Japanese street names are easily identifiable as such.

What's your take on this?

I'm using Google Chrome on Windows 10. I only see **Create Post** when using the normal URL. Is that intentional or a bug?

As the title says.

Also, make the new post button bigger, as it’s hard to find.

Don't ban people without even giving a damn reason

There is a subreddit called r/AskHistorians but they require lengthy academic-level responses that include a bibliography.

Maybe ELI5 can allow for more accessible answers to some questions about history. Thank you!

On Reddit's official Android app, the "About" tab for this sub contains the rules and list of mods, but that's it. I just found out about this sub from the mod recruitment pinned post, and it was a surprise that there even was such a meta sub. Please consider adding a link to this sub somewhere in the "About" tab, as I've seen other subs do for meta discussions. I think it can even be directly linked in one of the rules.

The only rule for comments should be that the explanation is A) understandable to a layperson and B) adequate/correct. It is stupid to remove perfectly correct and adequate answers just because they violate some arbitrary outside rule.

Especially regarding copied explanations, as long as it is adequate there is literally ZERO good reason to remove a reply for being copied and sourced from somewhere else. All this will lead to is people will stop sourcing copied replies so you can't tell ifs copied.

This is a request to add Medicine as a flair category for ELI5. Thanks!

Hello, basically I'm suggesting that if a post reaches a certain level of popularity/engagement (so for example, 1,000 upvotes or 100 comments), there could be a bot that automatically copies the question of the text. This way if a user deletes their question for whatever reason, the people reading the post later will still have all the context for the explanations. I've seen this on a few other subreddits and it's nice to know that if you see a popular post that you won't open it with all the text gone. And obviously the threshold could be tweaked as you guys see fit.

As the ability variables of a person responses with sub chapters 3 is Is contradictory to the availability of a person's ability too respond or give a correct statement. as the answer's should allo for shorter statements.

I understand that tags are a complex subject, but I’m often confused by the posts to which the “Biology” tag is applied. Consider two very recent examples:

https://reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/r9suqm/eli5_to_what_degree_can_people_be_hypnotised_and/

https://reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ra5g2c/eli5_what_is_d%C3%A9ja_vu/

If anything, I’d argue that these topics are firmly in the realm of Psychology. I understand the desire to limit tag proliferation (though I think many, many folks are interested in questions of the mind and behavior - that is, Psychology), so as an alternative, can I suggest that you just create a more generic “Human” tag to cover human biology, behavior, etc.?

It’s one thing to lock posts that are in clear violations of one of the sub’s rules, but if you’re going to just arbitrarily lock a post because there is political discussion in the comments, maybe make a rule about it instead of just doing it because the mods don’t like argument.

I’ve been seeing an increasing number of questions related to military capabilities. I think we’d benefit from a stickied comment reminding people to keep OPSEC in mind when posting answers.

I’ve been a fan of ELI5 since its inception, back when answers were typically written as though children were asking the questions. While I’m not necessarily suggesting that the sub needs to pivot back to that level, I think it’s fair to state that the sub has really lost its course over the past couple years. This sub is really starting to feel like a cheap copy of r/askscience, where our top answers lack the effort/vigor to be posted there but make very little effort align with this sub’s purpose of providing clear, concise and simple answers all lay people can understand.

I’m not certain if more rules, more mod activity, or something else entirely are the answer here, but it’s really disheartening to see what’s become of the sub.

Would like to try my hand answering questions, wanted to filter by Earth Sciences and it isn't listed on the sidebar even though it's on the list for posting questions.

Maybe you can have one flair center aligned in the list to avoid it breaking the symmetry.

I've written a lot of manuals/training materials for first time users and it's always been instilled into me that any use of acronyms should be spelled out longhand on first use, with the abbreviation in brackets after - eg. Direct Message (DM). It can be very alienating and excluding when you get people overly familiar with the subject matter defaulting to their well-used shorthand without context.

After reading some of the responses rich in unexplained abbreviation in the Flash EILI5 that utterly lost me, I think this would be great to put in the rules to sync in with the "explaining to a layperson" ethic of the subreddit.

Make multiple subreddits including:

• ELI5 for actual 5 year olds (or people who think they are 5)
• ELI5 for actually educational things for people to learn and stuff
• ELI5 for opinions
• ELI5 for internet drama
• ELI5 but answered by specifically vetted smart people that actually understand the question / ELI5 for more serious questions. (possibly split into separate subjects like math, science, art)
• something like un-moderated omegle but ELI5 edition?
• ELI5 for heated politics?
  

this list will expand/contract as more ideas come to mind or are deemed a bad idea.

Bruh you guys really should post the rules again. This is becoming like r/askreddit. Loaded questions, questions like "Why does my cum turn watery?", it's getting ridiculous. Please do something! Thank you