Howdy r/badhistory! It's been a while, so we decided to roll the June and July Modmail Madness-es into one shiny package for you. If you don't know what that is, every time the sub is mentioned or a post is linked elsewhere on Reddit, we get a notification. We track some basic stats from these, and also find our favourites and snicker quietly about them. Then we bring them to you, so you can also snicker, or perhaps guffaw if you prefer.

First up, a new assessment of the sub: "absolutely cancerous with pedants." Does no one read R6?

Are linguistics real? r/mapporn debates, featuring a bonus cameo from our sub's founder!

Apparently you can't divide by zero and the Israelites had it all figured out... as one comment says, this is a candidate for r/badeverything.

Even the bots are complaining about us now.

Remember, when you write your scholarly papers on how x holiday is really y pagan festival, history.com is not considered a scholarly source.

What caused the Dark Ages, those mystical and not really real times? A lack of sources for future historians? The fall of Rome? Nope, it was when they banned homosexuality apparently.

While not a source of bad history in and of itself, this thread offers some great examples of frequent bad history in medieval inspired fantasy.

But what is France? r/worldnews isn't sure.

That's it for posts, so on to some statistics. We count only one mention per unique thread, regardless of how often that post is linked in the thread or by how many people. Despite this, Mother Teresa was mentioned the most on Reddit the past two months, with a solid 24 mentions, good for one almost every other day. Mark Felton's plagiarism was second, with 8 mentions. And in third place, the debunk of Apocalypto was mentioned 5 times. Altogether, 48 r/badhistory threads were linked across Reddit in 103 unique conversations.

If you have something you want us to see, simply mention r/badhistory in a comment or send us a modmail with a link. See you next month!