We at the Central Committee of the AskHistorians subreddit are pleased to announce the new representatives of the people who have been democratically chosen by the will of the popular masses. We ask for your acclamations of their elevation to this high and lofty status in light of the need for democratic centralism in the face of the bourgeois imperialist threat.
These are the new representatives of the people who will fight against the boaxing of soaps, will send trolls to inglorious exile, and will purge low effort replies which betray the soft, bourgeois nature of their authors!
The Central Committee has granted leave for the regulated expression of mirth in this thread.
/u/chocolatepot : Expert in the History of Western Fashion.
/u/snapshot52 : Expert in Native American Studies and the vile wiles of Colonialism!
/u/AsiaExpert : Expert in being an expert in all matters related to China, Korea, and Japan.
/u/tenminutehistory : Expert in our glorious Soviet Motherland!
FLY YOU FOOLS
Everyone remain absolutely still; Their vision is based on movement.
Welcome, comrades! Uphold Marxist-Leninist-Askhistorians thought!
I welcome and praise our new mods. I would like to clearly state that I am doing this because I admire them, not because of the crippling fear of banhammers in their beautiful hands. All hail!
We're AskHistorians official! It's like facebook official, only better and with superior citations.
I regret nothing.
Welcome, folks! I've spent years admiring your incredible work here, and I can't wait to terrorise alongside you all! :)
Ooo Western Fashion! I don't have any questions but I look forward to reading others'!
I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords moderators.
[curtsies] I shall endeavor to bring honor to the sub with my service!
I've been on the receiving end of you guys at least once, but I still prefer the moderation here to the open sewer of speculation and anecdote that makes up the rest of the internet.
In Soviet Russia, subreddit moderate YOU!
Suckers.
Congratulations to the four of you. The Central Committee has picked an excellent crop. I hope that when time allows I will be able to rejoin the team and work with you :)
Oh wow. I think all of us can agree that OP definitely jumped the gun here, since the Electoral College hasn't voted to elect any of these new "mods" yet.
I greet you, comrades, under the banner of the banhammer and sickle.
Another wave of promotions that I've either been passed over, or avoided, depending on one's view; I prefer the latter.
In keeping with the joke that won't die (like any good Motherland), I will ask our new glorious mods a question:
Who was the greatest military mind of modern history, and why was it Zhukov?
Welcome, my new mods!
This is just to say that I misread the post and thought for a glorious moment that there was such a thing as Native American Fashion studies.
Yay new mods! May your banhammer be swift and your comments snarky.
Welcome!!
Congrats!
I, for one, would like to welcome our new insect overlords!
I, for one, welcome our new moderator overlords, may their reign be full of dank memes and casual death threats.
Not to sound like a dick, but /u/chocolatepot, what kind of job can you have with your expertise?
Good to se you. It's really nice of you that you're willing to spend time in here.
I'm looking forward to seeing [deleted] whenever a popular topic comes up.
Congratulations! Just keep doing what you're doing, this sub is right up there with TL.net as possibly one of the best moderated sites on the internet.
Let's see if they can raise the level a bit! We all history lovers hope so.
I'm not sure if I should congratulate you, or express my sympathies?
How does one become a mod?
Keep clapping everyone. You know what happens when you stop first. Wouldn't want to upset our rulers ... eh, I said glorious leaders, of course ... what do you mean with 'gulag'?
Apparently I totally didn't see anything about an election. Hopefully we can avoid entire threads of "deleted" in response to interesting questions moving forward.
i would like to post some mirth but i have no sources to cite
How good are they at deleting 95-100% of posts in each thread?
I assume that's the only prerequisite for the position.
I think this post and the thread pretty much cements on what level of seriousness one can take /r/AskHistorians.
Hopefully now we will actually SEE some comments rather than empty shadowbanned comments and 'removed'