Hearken to me readers and contributors of AskHistorians for I bring you tidings! Today we, the AskHistorians moderators, your benevolent dictators friends, accept new members into our exalted ranks of comment removers and behind the scenes drudgers! In the high hallowed halls of our secret cabal, filled with smoke, mirrors, and ban-hammers we the AskHistorians mods have passed a new doom upon the land, and decreed that more lackeys valued contributors should rise to a new station and be given the keys to the kingdom.

Our decree thus follows:

In the interest of further preserving the strict no fun allowed policy high standards of our subreddit, we have deemed several new mods to be established herein who shall reign over the lands of our demesne, given in our grace, to our valued vassals.

May we all join together in fealty and gratitude to welcome:

/u/historiagrephour our Scottish historian extraordinaire, who shall sound off in the threads with raucous pipes and critical examination of early modern gender roles!

/u/DGBD who brings their musical talent to add to our own concerto and be heard across the subreddit!

/u/hellcatfighter adds their own knowledge of China and Japan to weave into our expertise!

and /u/Steelcan909! (What do you mean I'm announcing myself and speaking in the third person? I don't think our new mod would appreciate that kind of talk!)

Should any infringe upon this, our generous gift, may they be bound by the inextricable bonds of being hit with the banhammer and cast out, or the more greater, make amends through excessive begging and supplication!