ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5
Do you demand a simple and concise explanation of complicated and complex topics?
Fret not, dear voater, for ELI5 is here! Ask a complex question, and get a simple answer!
General guidelines:
Your explanation should be friendly and straightforward, but not condescending.
- 1.1. Above all, you're here to answer questions concisely. Don't get needlessly hostile or complicated in your response.
- 1.2. We aren't literally 5 year olds. Well, most of us aren't. We can handle big words and long sentences. There's no need to dumb down an explanation unless specifically asked to do so by the asker.
- 1.3. If specified by the asker, responses to particular levels of expertise are encouraged.
/v/ELI5 is a place to get simple explanations of complex topics.
- 2.1. Yes/no answer questions, and questions pursuing an answer without an explanation of that answer, are not allowed.
- 2.2: If it doesn't have an explanation, it isn't an explain like I'm five question.
- 2.3. Refrain from posing hypothetical or personal questions. Ideally, every question should have a factually based, reasonable explanation.
Feel free to send prohibited questions to /v/nostupidquestions, they'll help you out instead!
This isn't a debating subverse:
- 3.1. Don't ask for personal opinions (and don't ask potentially loaded questions)
- 3.2. Don't present a biased response
Top-level comments should be on-topic.
- 4.1. Self-explanatory, really.
- 4.2. Jokes are allowed and appreciated if they're on topic and not a whole top-level comment.
Someone came here for an answer, don't send them somewhere else.
- 5.1. Your response should not consist wholly of a redirection link within a sentence.
- 5.2. It is acceptable to link to outside sources for singular words or concepts. This can be done to save you explaining concepts that are non-central (yet still important) to your response.
- 5.3. Don't copy+paste from outside sources without paraphrasing. Outside sources don't always explain concepts in layman's terms.
Don't know? Don't teach.
- 6.1. If you don't know what you're talking about, don't try to teach someone else about it.
You are allowed to post a question that's been posted before, but to save your own time, search for it before posting anyway.
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[–] tanukihat 3 points 4 points 7 points (+7|-3) ago
The Indians are extorting the pipeline company. They demanded unreasonable money to build a pipeline across their land, the company said no and moved the pipeline off their land. So now they're protesting and spreading disinformation and causing trouble even though it's not on their land. Savages demanding a payday, that's all.
[–] Flaaffy [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I thought the Indians refused to have the pipe built in the first place because it would cause complications underground?
The Indians actually were okay if they were given a large sum of money?
(I really don't know anything, so please don't mind my stupid questions .-. )
[–] tanukihat 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
They say they're worried the pipeline will affect their water supply, or their burial grounds, or their horse herds, the story changes every day. In reality it won't affect any of those things, especially now that it's being built off their reservation.
IIRC there were extensive negotiations prior to the riots and protests, but they couldn't come to a deal (read: they demanded too much money).
But it's all moot now. It's off their land, they have no rights to halt construction, and Trump is pushing it forward. Natives BTFO.
[–] jokersmild ago
The "Prairie Niggers" (funded by Jews) are trying to stop progress.