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▲ 57 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 05 October 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 11 days ago

▲ 67 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 21 September 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 25 days ago

▲ 77 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 07 September 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 1 month ago

▲ 16 r/AskHistorians

"A flair panel should work like a pack of hounds and not like a flock of sheep." The /r/AskHistorians Flair Application Thread XXXII

Welcome flair applicants! This is the place to apply for a flair – the colored text you will have seen next to some user's names indicating their specialization. We are always looking for new flaired users, and if you think you have what it takes to join the panel of historians, you're in the right place!

For examples of previous applications, and our current panel of historians, you can find a previous application thread here, and there is a list of active flaired users on our wiki.

Requirements for a flair

A flair in r/AskHistorians indicates extensive, in-depth knowledge about an area of history and a proven track record of providing great answers in the subreddit. In applying for a flair, you are claiming to have:

Expertise in an area of history, typically from either degree-level academic experience or an equivalent amount of self-study. For more exploration of this, check out this thread.
The ability to cite sources from specialist literature for any claims you make within your area.
The ability to provide high quality answers in the subreddit in accordance with our rules.

For a more in-depth look at how applications are analyzed, consult this helpful guide on our wiki explaining what an answer that demonstrates the above looks like.

To apply for a flair, simply post in this thread. Your post needs to include:

Links to 3 to 5 answers which show a sustained involvement in the community, including at least one within the past month.
These answers should all relate to the topic area in which you are seeking flair. They should demonstrate your claim to knowledge and expertise on that topic, as well as your ability to write about that topic comprehensively and in-depth. Outside credentials or works can provide secondary support, but cannot replace these requirements.
The text of your flair and which category it belongs in (see the sidebar). Be as specific as possible as we prefer flair to reflect the exact area of your expertise as near as possible, but be aware there is a limit of 64 characters.
If you are a former, now inactive flair, an application with one recent flair-quality answer, plus additional evidence of renewed community involvement, is required.

One of the moderators will then either confirm your flair or, if the application doesn't adequately show you meet the requirements, explain what's missing. If you get rejected, don't despair! We're happy to give you advice and pointers on how to improve your portfolio for a future application. Plenty of panelists weren't approved the first time.

If there's a backlog this may take a few days but we will try to get around to everyone as quickly as possible.

Updated Procedures

Note that we have made some slight changes to the requirements of the past. Previous applications required all answers to be within the past six months. But we realize that this can sometimes be tough if you write about uncommon topics. We have changed the temporal requirement to be one answer that was written in the past month. The answers as a whole will be evaluated holistically with an eye towards a regular pace of contributions. i.e. 3 answers each spaced 3 months apart would be accepted now, but we would likely ask for more recent contributions if an application was one recent answer and the rest over a year old. Flair reflects not only expertise, but involvement in the AskHistorians community.

"I'm an Expert About Something But Never Have a Chance to Write About It!"

Some topics only come up once in a blue moon, but that doesn't mean you can't still get flair in it! There are a number of avenues to follow, many of which are dealt with in greater detail at the last section of this thread.

Expected Behavior

We invest a large amount of trust in the flaired members of r/AskHistorians, as they represent the subreddit when answering questions, participating in AMAs, and even in their participation across reddit as a whole. As such, we do take into account an applicant's user history reddit-wide when reviewing an application, and will reject applicants whose post history demonstrate bigotry, racism, or sexism. Such behavior is not tolerated in r/AskHistorians, and we do not tolerate it from our panelists in any capacity. We additionally reserve the right to revoke flair based on evidence of such behavior after the application process has been completed. r/AskHistorians is a safe space for everyone, and those attitudes have no place here.

Quality Contributors

If you see an unflaired user consistently giving excellent answers, they can be nominated for a "Quality Contributor" flair. Just message the mods their username and some example comments which you believe meet the above criteria.

To apply for FAQ finder, we require demonstration of a consistent history of community involvement and linking to previous responses and the FAQ. We expect to see potential FAQ Finders be discerning in what they link to, ensuring that it is to threads which represent the current standards of the subreddit, and they do so in a polite and courteous manner, both to the 'Asker', and also by including a username ping of the original 'Answerer'.

Having a flair brings with it a greater expectation to abide by the subreddit's rules and maintain the high standard of discussion we all like to see here. The mods will revoke the flair of anybody who continually breaks the rules, fails to meet the standard for answers in their area of expertise, or violates the above mentioned expectations. Happily, we almost never have to do this.

Additional Resources

Before applying for flair, we encourage you to check out these resources to help you with the application process:

Our Rules Roundtable on what a 'Good Answer' looks like
Our Wiki Guide on what makes a good application
The Previous Application Threads, to see what makes for successful - and not successful - applications.
The Sunday Digest, and Monthly Awards which can provide many examples of we are looking for regarding the caliber of flaired users.

u/EnclavedMicrostate — 1 month ago

▲ 110 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 31 August 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 2 months ago

▲ 105 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 24 August 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 2 months ago

▲ 82 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 17 August 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 2 months ago

▲ 114 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 10 August 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 2 months ago

▲ 100 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 03 August 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 2 months ago

▲ 109 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 27 July 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 3 months ago

▲ 94 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 20 July 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 3 months ago

▲ 102 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 13 July 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 3 months ago

▲ 103 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 06 July 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 3 months ago

▲ 98 r/HobbyDrama

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 29 June 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 4 months ago

▲ 10 r/AskHistorians

Why was there a revolution on Haiti but not on Martinique? Put another way, what was the non-Haitian part of the French Caribbean empire doing during the upheavals of the metropole?

u/EnclavedMicrostate — 4 months ago

▲ 86 r/AskHistorians

In Henry IV, Part I, Falstaff asks of Prince Hal, 'Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries?' What associations would blackberries have evoked for a Shakespearean audience?

u/EnclavedMicrostate — 4 months ago

▲ 100 r/ClassicUsenet+1 crossposts

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 22 June 2026

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 4 months ago

▲ 18 r/wargaming

My first (solo) run of Guards of Traitor's Toll

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u/EnclavedMicrostate — 4 months ago

▲ 58 r/AskHistorians

After Saratoga, the American War of Independence turned into a sprawling global conflict whose largest battle was in Gibraltar and whose last was in India. How have historians dealt with the war’s expansion beyond the Thirteen Colonies?

More provocatively, is there a case to be made that the American War of Independence was a sub-conflict within a wider global war that ought to be called something else, akin to the Second Sino-Japanese War as a sub-conflict of the wider Second World War?

u/EnclavedMicrostate — 4 months ago

▲ 102 r/AskHistorians

To what extent is Scientology an offshoot of 20th century British occultism?

A while ago I was watching a YouTube video about Jack Parsons, a distant disciple of Aleister Crowley who, in his later years, had been notionally supported – and then defrauded – by L Ron Hubbard after WW2. Apparently, while Crowley never met Hubbard, he did warn Parsons about him, to no avail.

I was recently put in mind about this again when I learned that for several years, Scientology’s HQ was in a manor outside East Grinstead in England, latterly run by the parents of Neil Gaiman, who – crimes aside – is not exactly unknown for engaging with occult motifs in his work, and was formerly an auditor for the Scientologists.

Taken together, it seems like there are a lot more transatlantic connections to what I originally perceived as an almost comically American piece of new age religion, and I wonder a bit if there was a meaningful link between Scientology/Dianetics and the various occult movements popping up in the British Isles during and before its emergence.

u/EnclavedMicrostate — 4 months ago