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Please note that R2 still applies to debunk/debate comments and include:

• A summary of or preferably a link to the specific material you wish to have debated or debunked.
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Do not request entire books, shows, or films to be debunked. Use specific examples (e.g. a chapter of a book, the armour design on a show) or your comment will be removed.

Respect Thread Symposium Week 1

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Official Respect Thread Discord

-->> Requests go here, though it is locked for brand new requests at present <<-

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2021 End of Year Awards

Thank you everyone for another monumental year of growth, progress, and excellence on the subreddit. We had just under 2,000 Respect Threads made this past year, started exciting new initiatives like the RT Rumble and the RT Discord, and continued to raise the bar for the best collection of respect threads in the world.

Reflecting that excellence are these year's winners of the EoY awards. I now present to you our winners!

Best Anime – Sonic X by /u/Ultim8_Lifeform

This category had a lot of solid threads to go through, so hopefully we weren’t to slow with the decision. But overall we’ve decided to give it to a certain blue blur with attitude. Sonic, and indeed speedsters in general can always be frustrating to deal with given how speed covers most of their feats. And yet this thread, despite the abundance of speed and a multiple different forms and sets of equipment, manages to present all of the information in a clear and concise way, while even providing all of the relevant scaling. Often times when making a thread it can feel like you’ve gotta go fast, but putting in the time and effort can produce some amazing results.

Best Manga - Guts by /u/KenfromDiscord

“Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough.” None of this can describe the thread for Guts, which is cleanly organized without any one section feeling like it’s too long. A character like Guts can have a lot of misinformation accompanying them, so it’s nice to see a thread that puts so much effort into giving us an accurate portrayal of what he’s capable of. Add in a clear divide between his normal capabilities and what his armor provides, and you’ve got a thread as solid as his sword, with far more care. It’s just a shame that we probably won’t see an update again.

Best Marvel Comic - [Shang-Chi]

Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud for falsifying data and misleading investors in her blood testing machine, Edison.

People lost hundreds of millions of dollars investing in Theranos because she lied about having a working machine for blood testing without having any peer review analysis.

Here's the 60 minutes piece on it because I don't want to write out a bunch of bullet points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIqF95qiQSs

All this is to say, Bionano Genomics has a PROVEN machine with tons of peer review that is, by all accounts, more cost effective and more accurate than other machines on the market.

The upcoming symposium (https://www.labroots.com/ms/virtual-event/bngo2022) will feature around 25 Bionano Genomics customers speaking on a range of topics.

From the website:

"Event Highlights:

At the Bionano Genomics 2022 Symposium, you will hear from over 25 customers around the world who will showcase their findings and answers using OGM. Each day will feature customer presentations, a live panel with Q&A, as well as poster presentations by topic area.

Topics include:

Monday, January 10: Constitutional Cytogenomics

Tuesday, January 11: Hematologic Malignancies

Wednesday, January 12: Solid Tumors

Thursday, January 13: OGM + NGS

Even though each day is topic specific, we encourage you to attend all days and sessions that interest you. All presentations will be recorded and available on demand after the symposium concludes."

This stock has been hammered, but fair value is sitting around $4.95 according to Macroaxis.

I know the market isn't favoring growth at the moment and there are lots of theories as to what 2022 will look like, but this company is the real deal. I don't know how long it will take, but I'm fairly confident Bionano Genomics will be at the forefront of the industry.

I know BNGO tends to trade sideways or go down with good news, but the January 10th symposium looks VERY promising, especially considering that Theranos (and the genomic space) is in the spotlight at the moment.

I've been holding since $0.54 after taking some profits, but I bought some call options on Thursday and will likely buy more on Monday morning at a couple different strike prices.

This is a long and extremely interesting report on a US tactical nuclear weapons symposium, which answers a lot of questions I've seen asked here regarding US nuclear weapons use in the earlier and more nuke-happy part of the Cold War.

Included is a discussion of then-known Chinese and Soviet tactical nuke capabilities, a justification for procuring tactical nukes in the first place, lots of American theorizing about Soviet intentions and war plans, methods of preparing troops for nuclear attack... and quite a lot else. Much more than I can summarize in a set of paragraphs! The question-and-answer periods are particularly interesting, as they illuminate the thinking of many of the people who might've given orders to pull the trigger had war come.

Preface: I thought it might be kind of fun to have a recurring thread where magical scholars of both roleplaying and meta varieties can come together and talk about wizarding ways in an atmosphere of casually professional fellowship.

Format: Add a topic of meta discussion for wizarding players (an opinion, question about mechanics or strategy, etc.) or a topic of RP discussion for wizarding characters (what would your character or another character be starting a conversation about at a conference/party with other wizards? Your latest adventure, or what you did with that new spell last week?). Put a [Meta] or [RP] tag at the beginning if you're posting a top comment, and do your best to follow that theme when posting responses. I'll seed a few topics to help get things rolling, but I encourage you to post your own top comments, and to comment on as many other poster's prompts as you can out of courtesy.

That being said... Welcome to the 1st Wizard's Symposium!

Respect Thread Symposium Week 51

Link to Last Symposium

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#End of Year Awards

After two weeks of nominations, we've collated everything, and are starting to discuss who we believe to be the best of the best and worthy of the various awards. Ideally, these will come in the first symposium of 2022, but when has anything on r/RespectThreads gone to schedule. We're also going to allow a brief 48 hour amnesty just for any last submissions in case people have forgot or been dragging their feet, as I'm pretty sure I saw a notification for someone making a batch of nominations only for it to be deleted when I checked and not reposted later. So play it safe, check the thread, make sure your nominations are there, good luck, have fun, all that.

But of course, the true highlight of the awards, the Best Mod RT, is up to your votes instead of us yelling at each other how our respective waifu (be it a Touhou, a psychopathic angel, or Reed Richards) is the best. Unfortunately, an Earthbending Champion we didn't quite catch the name of was too busy beating up the most powerful person on her world, so wasn't able to appear on the form, but at least we know she would've won if she showed up. You can vote among the others here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegiXz9KNEkZ97YuQjm-MGD9UvGjxseFvzCqKM-aZp2JBDZRg/viewform.

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Respect Thread Rumble Voting

This also existed.

You can vote here.

You can find find last week's Rumble held under the same post.

Next month we'll obviously have a new Rumble, but there was also discussions while formulating this idea that we had January be a Rumble for any threads made in 2021. Would you want to see that? Just have December's offerings spotlighted? Maybe a different rumble for each? Feel free to give your opinions below or on the form.

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Besides from that, hey, it's nearly Christmas, hope you're all having a great time whether you celebrate it or not. Feel free to spread merry and cheer (or ju

Greetings everyone! We hope your holiday season is going well.

First of all, we would like to apologize to symposium fans for such a terrible delay in getting the process going this year. We are trying something new this year and we were unfortunately not as prepared to get it going as we have for previous years (which was as easy as checking a box and hitting save on the right day in the past). We will be running it this year, though, and the process has been finalized.

The reason for the shift is due the wanting a chance to experiment with the format to see what actually brings more attention to the wonderful pieces the community puts together, as well pushback from some people about going text post only for a few days (ironic we decide to change in a year where there isn't any real news coming out due to the lockout...)

Here is the process for this year's symposium:

1. If you would like to write a piece for the symposium, write it as a text post to your own reddit profile first.

2. Submit a link to it here.

3. Pieces will be reviewed and users that create posts that fit symposium guidelines will be DMed letting them know which day they should post their piece to the subreddit.

4. On your given day, post your piece and the mods will sticky it for the day.

Symposium-level pieces are high effort pieces of original content. That does not mean they are necessarily serious pieces (though serious ones are absolutely encouraged), but simply changing the name to every team is not a high effort symposium post. Here is the symposium archive to give you a picture of what's been posted in the past.

The exact length of the symposium will depend on the number of high quality submissions received, but we plan on beginning posts next week!

Sidenote - users that generate high quality content usually make good mods, and we are currently accepting moderator applications.

As someone suggested, I will make a tutorial on how to throw your own symposium. I have been taking part in symposiums for years now! I remember the first time I was 15 - and in a few days I'll turn 21. In the past year I have been the master symposial - the host - and I have learned some tricks to make it as nice as possible. Let's start with the guests: you want a smaller number of people (5-6) who are, as much as possible, passionate about philosophy, the arts, history and rethoric. I absolutely love party people! Their dionysiac essence is wonderful but it doesn't allow the much needed apollineus side of the symposium. Invitations are a step i care a lot about. Handwritten letters on coffee stained paper with a calligraphic pen truly helps you to set the tone for the night (and the much needed aesthetics of it), but often a well written email is just as good. It usually goes as it follows: "'Symposium: a convivial party (as after a banquet in ancient Greece) with music, wine and conversation.' Dear (name of the guest), With the biggest pleasure we invite you to take part in our (first? Second?) Symposium of the season. The dinner will take place in (address) on the (date) at (time). To your delight we are working on a curated menu composed as following: (Menu) Please let us know if we can help you with allergies or dietary requirements.' At this point there are three things you can do: if you're not sure how the gues will react to possible hot takes, or where they stand on a moral greyness scale, you can turn it into a mere rethorical game. You pick a topic (if you manage, you can pick it with the guests but in my experience if say it's pretty damn difficult) and you pick possible positions on the said topic (e.g. Liberal, conservative,...) that you give the guests. Practical example: you have chosen the topic of morality in the arts. You give guest 1. The position of a late 19th century aesthete, guest 2. The position of a modern day conservative, guest 3. A very adamant follower of the Twitter political discourse and so on. Said positions don't need to be the real ideas guests have on the subject, the fun will be articulating a winning position even if you're totally against it. The other thing you can do is give a topic of discussion but do not impose a position, or, when you're ready, give absolutely no clue what the night is about to be about. Of course in the invitation you need to incorporate the topic chosen if that's the case. And to conclud

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Respect Thread Symposium Week 46

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EoY Discussion

For the most part there hasn't been much discussion on our annual End of Year awards, so we planned on making this week a bit more focused to see if that helps provoke further input. If everybody's happy with how things are running then we can certainly carry on with business as usual, we just want to make sure there's ample room for feedback before we start making hard commitments.

So, to cover a few basics:

Wait, wtf are EoY Awards?

These are basically our Oscars, with End of Year Awards both recognizing the valuable contributions made to the community in the past year and setting a standard of excellence to be followed in subsequent years. If somebody really wants to know what r/respectthreads is all about it's the EoY awards they should look at more than anything else.

For reference last year's nominations and awards looked like this:

• Nominations
• Awards

Eligibility

The cutoff for an RT's eligibility is November 30th, and anything 1st December onwards will be applicable for next year's awards. This means if you're sorting through RTs you'd like to nominate that's the timeline you should look at, and if you're hoping to squeeze your best work in this month you've basically got the rest of the day to do it.

Categories

In particular we'd really like to hear feedback on our categories, which are modified and tweaked each year to best reflect the areas we want to recognize. Last year, the categories were:

1. Best Anime
2. Best Manga
3. Best Marvel Comic
4. Best DC Comic
5. Best 3rd Party Comic
6. Best Game
7. Best Literature
8. Best Live Action TV
9. Best Live Action Movie
10. Best Animated TV
11. Best Animated Movie
12. Best Multimedia
13. Best Formatting
14. Best User
15. Best RT
16. Best Mod RT

Some of these categories have been mainstays every year, some have come and gone, and some were brand new last year. What do you think about them? Are there some you don't like, some you really like, or some we haven't thought of you think should be included?

For as some insight into a few factors we look into for categories, here's a few bullet points

• A category should have robust competition. "Best Multimedia" has come and gone

Weekly post for all your debunk or debate requests. Top level comments need to be either a debunk request or start a discussion.

Please note that R2 still applies to debunk/debate comments and include:

• A summary of or preferably a link to the specific material you wish to have debated or debunked.
• An explanation of what you think is mistaken about this and why you would like a second opinion.

Do not request entire books, shows, or films to be debunked. Use specific examples (e.g. a chapter of a book, the armour design on a show) or your comment will be removed.

Respect Thread Symposium Week 47

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At long last, it's time. Time to revisit all those threads made since December last year to the end of last month and decide which ones you think are the best examples the subreddit has to offer. Like last time, you get one nomination per category, and while they won't be used for deciding the winner still feel free to give people shoutouts through honorable mentions. Also, please remember to keep all your nominations in a single comment. This year, the categories are:

###Best Anime

###Best Manga

###Best Marvel

###Best DC

(For clarification, the above two are for comics, not any other mediums using their characters)

###Best Third Party Comic

###Best Game

###Best Literature

###Best Live Action Series

###Best Live Action Movie

###Best Animated Series

###Best Animated Movie

###Best Multimedia

To recap, this is for threads which don't neatly fit into a single category, and rather cover a variety of different mediums. Examples of this can be seen in the past two winners of this award, Indiana Jones and Master Chief.

###Best Formatting

###Best User

###Best Underrated RT

A new one this year, we're making this category open for a thread of any category which is of fantastic quality, yet only garnered under 50 upvotes total (give or take a couple, depending on whether Reddit's still altering the votes they have).

###Best RT

###Best Mod RT

Once again, we crave attention and acknowledgement. While we aren't eligible in any of the other categories, you can post any thread made by doctorgecko, mikhailnikolaievitch, or rangernumberx here and they'll be voted on by the masses to see who gets to sit on the golden throne as head mod whenever ChocolateRage isn't around.

Respect Thread Symposium Week 52

Link to Last Symposium

Official Respect Thread Discord

-->> Requests go here, though it is locked for brand new requests at present <<-- We made it...oh dear god we made it through all that. Great job everyone.

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#Respect Thread Rumble Results

We're just putting some finishing touches on these, doing a final bit of discussion, this will be updated with the full results soon. Happy new year, here's the final results.

Best Rumble

1. InverseFlash - Doctor Eggman (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Infinite Ultron (Marvel's What If?) - 8 Votes

2. NegativeGamer - Yugimahama Hikaru (Kengan Omega) vs. Amogus Kid (Copypasta) - 1 Vote

3. BorBurison - Kang the Conquerer (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes) vs. The Great Gazoo (The Flintstones) - 1 Vote

Best Rebuttal

1. XXBEERUSXX - Unnamed Earthbending Champion (The Legend of Korra) vs. The Unnamed Wolf Kretch (Wardstone Chronicles) - 6 Votes

2. mtglozwof - Unnamed Earthbending Champion (The Legend of Korra) vs. The Unnamed Wolf Kretch (Wardstone Chronicles) - 5 Votes

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#End of Year Rewards

Likewise, we're still discussing these, though these ones aren't going to come as quick. Maybe next week, maybe the week after that (hey, it's the holiday period, people are busy), but they are actively being worked on.

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#Hey, It's The Holiday Period!

We all hope you had a great Christmas / other form of December 25th celebration, and that you're all going to have a great new ye

Weekly post for all your debunk or debate requests. Top level comments need to be either a debunk request or start a discussion.

Please note that R2 still applies to debunk/debate comments and include:

• A summary of or preferably a link to the specific material you wish to have debated or debunked.
• An explanation of what you think is mistaken about this and why you would like a second opinion.

Do not request entire books, shows, or films to be debunked. Use specific examples (e.g. a chapter of a book, the armour design on a show) or your comment will be removed.

Weekly post for all your debunk or debate requests. Top level comments need to be either a debunk request or start a discussion.

Please note that R2 still applies to debunk/debate comments and include:

• A summary of or preferably a link to the specific material you wish to have debated or debunked.
• An explanation of what you think is mistaken about this and why you would like a second opinion.

Do not request entire books, shows, or films to be debunked. Use specific examples (e.g. a chapter of a book, the armour design on a show) or your comment will be removed.

Weekly post for all your debunk or debate requests. Top level comments need to be either a debunk request or start a discussion.

Please note that R2 still applies to debunk/debate comments and include:

• A summary of or preferably a link to the specific material you wish to have debated or debunked.
• An explanation of what you think is mistaken about this and why you would like a second opinion.

Do not request entire books, shows, or films to be debunked. Use specific examples (e.g. a chapter of a book, the armour design on a show) or your comment will be removed.