As an experiment we're trying out a flair for posts that have comments that add significantly to the original post and are worth reading. This is intended to work in two ways:

• To give some recognition to commenters who put a lot of effort in writing an excellent comment that allows you to learn a lot more about the topic
• as a neutral tag indicating that the discussion in the comments adds value to the topic being discussed and is worth reading. This means we're not using it as a judgement on the quality of the original post.

We went with "Valued Comment" as the flair name because anything better was too long to be really viable to use as a flair. If you're good at naming stuff, please feel free to suggest a better name. It's gold to indicate that we give the comment Reddit Pyrite because we're cheap.

To give you an idea of the type of comments we plan to use it for, here are a few examples:

• The comments expands on a small item in the original post. For example: bad history post is about the Marian Reforms in the Roman army, and one of the commenters decide to write a huge post about Marius' life. Not super relevant to the topic, but fascinating anyway.
• The comment offers another viewpoint that supplements the original post. For example: the main post is about Churchill's writings on his capture and subsequent escape during the Boer War and someone writes an impressive comment about how captain Haldane wrote about Churchill in "How we escaped from Pretoria".
• The comment offers another viewpoint that disagrees with the original post. This would be in case the original post contains bad history on its own, is too black and white in its viewpoints, or there is no historical consensus on the topic, but the ensuing discussion in the comments corrects this and adds so much value that its worth leaving up because of that alone.
• Any significant expansion on the original R5. For example someone spots some bad history on which they're not an expert, but want to post about anyway and submits it with a good R5. Then an expert jumps in and adds their knowledge to the R5, adding far more depth and information. OP still deserves high-fives for an awesome post, and the commenter is recognised with a polite applause and a "Bis! Bis!" from the Ivory Towers of Academia.

The main point I'm trying to make with this extensive explanation is to show that in most cases it isn't meant to signify that the original post is lacking in explanation, or low effort. It's an indication that there's more to be learned in the comments.

We'll run it for a month or so to see if it works, and if it's not too much work for the mods to keep an eye on these.