Well deserved!

This seems like a great juncture to sincerely thank the moderation team, the regular posters and the entire community, including you lurkers, who make this sub perhaps the best on reddit.

The quality of posts and comments here is kept consistently high and everyone from seasoned academics to school kids can participate and enjoy a rewarding learning and teaching experience.

Whenever I'm showing reddit to someone who's unfamiliar with the site I use r/askhistorians as the prime example of how useful and engaging it can be.

Here's to many more years of History sleuthing!

FUNNER FACT: Although we're outranked by /r/HistoryPorn and /r/History, our regular traffic is higher than either. YOU ALL ARE MOST LOYAL HISTORY READERS.

(do the math)

This is undoubtedly my favorite subreddit, I really appreciate the moderator team for keeping this subreddit in such high quality and the frequent posters who keep this subreddit alive and interesting

I really like how the subreddit rules are so strictly enforced because I come here to enjoy myself and learn about history. I would not be able to enjoy myself if I was reading comments and the majority of them where dumb memes/jokes/irrelevant information, it would honestly waste my time. If I wanted memes and dumb joking about history, I just go to /r/polandball. I really do appreciate how I can come to this subreddit and just read the comments, and not sort through random comments that don't add anything to the discussion. It makes my experience (and probably many others) here on this subreddit so much more enjoyable and I really do appreciate it.

I also want to thank anyone who responds to post on this subreddit. You guys are awesome. There has not been a single reply that I have read that I did not learn something completely new. I feel that I learn so much and enjoy myself here because you guys spend so time and effort it your responses. To be quite frank, I have learned more interesting things about history from you guys than Wikipedia and my history classes combined, and that is saying something big as a high school student.

Just thank you guys so much for all you effort in making this my favorite subreddit, I really do appreciate it and I'm sure everyone else here feels the same way!

It is truly well deserved, and massive props to the mods of the subreddit - you guys do an incredible job.

The strictness of the subreddit rules and the moderation ensures a great-quality sub that never fails to teach me something new. I consider it a good sign that I get a moment of minor panic every time I comment in a thread, for fear that my comment might not live up to the standards - I assume I am not alone in this, and it certainly does away with lazy comments.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this subreddit stands head and shoulders above every other askX subreddit, in terms of quality of answers, quantity of quality answers, and moderation.

First time I dare post here, but i'd like to thank all the contributors to this subreddit, I never knew i'd be interested so many different subjects of history before I started reading /r/AskHistorians

I dislike this. We need more people commenting on questions without sources or qualifications, as it stands there are too many people here who abide by a higher standard of discourse and it really just kills the mood. Why can't I just post joke answers about the Holocaust? Because the mods are literally Hitler, that's why.

/s

On a serious note, congratulations! Does anyone have any stats regarding the number of flaired users versus the general subscriber base? It would be interesting to know if we're going to have enough answerers per questioners or whether we'll have to start bribing some history professors to get them to post here.

Cheers to /r/askhistorians. An awesome subreddit with mods who do their job objectively and faithfully.

You guys suck! Boo AskHistorians! Down with all of this! Booo!

Maybe because this is the subreddit that can consistently come up with interesting historical questions that I actually want to hear about.

Seriously, this subreddit is awesome.

Best subeditor I've been to. Thank you for these informative answers. As I take history in university, I hope to contribute back to this community

Very cool guys!

People on this subreddit have the most interesting questions. Keep it up!

There goes this subreddit. Time to make r/TrueAskHistorians. Please mods, keep this sr from turning into shit.