r/likeus

Can you post your project here?

Posts must focus on animal consciousness, volition, and spontaneity, avoiding purely cute or instinctual content. Extreme viewpoints without justification may be removed, and posts should refrain from anthropomorphism or anthropodenial. Reposts are allowed if they meet the 30-day gap rule.

Before you post: No rules specifically address self-promotion or 'I built X' posts, but the subreddit's focus on academic discussion about animal consciousness suggests such posts would likely be off-topic and removed.

The rules, in their words

1. Be polite!: This is a subreddit for discussion about animal sentience, intelligence and emotional experience. We encourage a formal and polite conversation on a subject that is new to science. Unwarranted conflict made by insults or provocations can result in a ban. The extension of the ban will be proportional to the gravity of the infraction with longer or permanent bans for more egregious offenses.
2. No cute/funny content, unless intelligence or emotion is present.: The subject of this subreddit is to discuss animal intelligence in it's most amazing forms. Animals being cute and showing only basic instincts is not what we are looking for. For instance, animals just sleeping or just eating is bad content, while animals dreaming or sharing food is good content. Posting cute content can result in a temporary ban.
3. No anthropomorphism and no anthropodenial.: What an animal thinks and feels may be an unsolvable question. Therefore everyone has a reasonable right to their own opinion. Although we encourage this debate, we reject extreme points of view. We don't want people to make forceful interpretations (anthropomorphism). But also, we don't want people to deny animal intelligence (anthropodenial). Extreme points of view without proper justification may be removed.
4. Posts should reveal animal consciousness, volition and spontaneity.: Animal intelligence and emotion can be inferred from animal behavior. If the animal is conditioned to perform a certain behavior there may be doubts about the interpretation of the animal behavior. Therefore, conditioned animal behavior is not the best content for r/LikeUs and may be removed.
5. Reposts are allowed within reason.: Reposts are welcome here as long as the posts comply with the other rules. However, 30 days need to pass before content is reposted so that it doesn't become spam.
6. Post score should be positive.: When you are not sure your post fits r/LikeUs you can score it to see if it achieves a positive score using the following list that you can find on this post: https://redd.it/1cqxy63 If a post does not reach a positive score, report the post and message the mods: https://old.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/likeus