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a man or woman typically between the ages of 16-36 who essentially ‘maintains’ forums, chat rooms, games, and other forms of internet media. depending on the administrator’s discretion, a moderator is given special perks that allow them to gain power over normal users. enforcing the rules and warning/kicking/banning users are among the most common perks given to moderators. unless it is a moderator gap period, at least one of these people will be online consistently to monitor the activity within a given community.

moderators range from super friendly to super strict and everywhere in between. here are some of the most common types of moderators:

mr. whatever: this type of moderator doesn’t really know how he/she even became a moderator in the first place, but they are one nonetheless. they mostly ignore their job unless in the presence of higher-ups. often looked down upon by the other moderators. sometimes possesses traits similar to sir social.

sir social: this type of moderator is usually liked by the majority of the community. he/she often treats everyone as equals, and fully engages with everyone, even offering advice to struggling users if needed. sir social is known to be very lenient.

the rules guy: the average moderator. a few warnings then punishments as needed. that’s it. as long as you follow the rules, you won’t be on his/her bad side.

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mr. popularity: this type of moderator is generally popular among the community’s high-end clique. he/she is usually a person who has been around for a long time, and only expresses genuine likeness among his/her friends and/or sycophant users. often hostile towards everyone else, especially new users. if mr. popularity is ever in an argument with an inferior member, members of the clique will always back him/her up.

mr. smart-ss: this type of moderator will always go out of his/her way to correct everything you say and/or do. even if it’s none of their business. sometimes pulls crazy statistics out of his/her -ss; anything just to mortify the opposition. often possesses the same traits as mr. popularity and/or mr. ego.

mr. ego: this type of moderator literally has an oversized ego. mr. ego, being the typical narcissist that he/she is, will always act as if he/she is higher up than everyone else, even if it means bending the rules and/or abusing their power. almost always shares the traits of mr. popularity and mr. smart-ss. sometimes bad enough to be a n-z- moderator.

n-z- moderator: this is the strictest, most despised type of moderator around. n-z- moderators will not go easy, even on the most minor of infractions. they don’t mess around, and they’re certainly not afraid to use the ban hammer on anyone. act as if they are holier than thou. in the most extreme cases, n-z- moderators could ultimately wipe out the majority of a website’s user base.
moderators are -ssigned to “moderate” something which means they are in charge of seeing that it does what it is supposed to do and nothing more.

most moderators are driven mad by their l-st for power and will cause suffering and hatred at every turn because it makes them happy to see others unhappy.

what the other definitions here leave out is that moderators aren’t just for forums or websites. there are moderators of sorts in games, chat rooms and many other places. all of them are nerdy teenages who get back at life for making them monsters by taking their anger out on anyone they can.
i used to play a really cool mud called moongate until the moderators(caleed immortals for some gay reason) went mad with power, changed the name of the game and banned me for trying to report a bug. losers.
(n.)someone who moderates a chatroom or message board. there are generally five types of moderators:

1. -sswipe: moderator that likes to punish members for little or no reason, har-sses members and then punishes them for har-ssing back or questioning them, or is an -sshole in general to those around him, not including his suckup friends, who will respond to his powerabuse with: “lol”, “pwned b-tch”, or “wut a f-g”.

2. strict moderator: follows the rules by the book, no exceptions. any rule infraction spotted will be punished, often without warning. normally dreaded.

3. do-nothing moderator: moderator that acts more like a member than a moderator, only intervening in serious matters that require mod attention. usually ignores rule infractions for fear of angering the administrator or stricter moderators. usually friendly.

4. bad-ss: best moderator there is. they are fair, and will usually joke around and let things go if the intention of the rule infraction was not fitting with the reason the rule was created. however, if someone is being a total idiot, especially flaming, they will proceed to argue with them for the sole purpose of getting them to make a fool of themselves, often to the point of losing their cool and posting a last “f-k u all!!!!!” message, at which point there is much lulz and the nooblet gets b7. see winrar

5. nutcase: moderator that not only rarely enforces rules, but often breaks them themselves in the name of fun, or sometimes just out of boredom. usually doesn’t have modship for long, or is constantly scolded by other mods or the admin. me.

these are the main five categories, there are several other types and combinations of types out there.

“ugh, i told that moderator that he’s being a jerk, and he banned me. what an -sswipe.”

“that moderator is mad strict. she just suspended six members for spamming just because they had too much chatspeak.”

“is that dude even a moderator? he hasn’t done jack through all this flooding.”

“haha, this moderator is so awesome.”

“what the h-ll…? that guy just flooded six pages of the chat away… he’s a moderator? wtf?”

moderators or “mods”

worthless,useless little pr-cks on internet forums whom are entirely unneccessary unless you have some sort of ‘off topic’ or ‘general discussion’ type of area but then the mods are totally useless because they are biased little pukes.the solution is either to have no such ‘off topic’ or ‘general discussion’ type of area or to just allow total free speech in such an area with “some” hard and fast rules about trolls and spammers.but people debating should just be allowed to f-cking swear at eachother in ‘no holds barred’ fashion.atleast it’s fair.or just simply don’t have an ‘off topic’ general discussion area.but then the sh-tty little mods with all of their biases would be out of a job.
no ‘off topic’ discusion = eliminates the need for moderators altogether.at most you might need a ‘guide’ to help keep things on topic or a ‘bouncer’ or ‘enforcer’ to ban the random d-ckheads.but generally things run pretty smoothly on their own as long as everybody on the forum sticks to the topic which everyone would do if you didn’t have a stupid,useless ‘off topic’ discussion area.

mods tend to be very biased and tend to nurture the r-t-rds on the forum which just perpetuates the flame wars.mods are almost as bad as trolls and spammers.
an “athority” figure in chatrooms or forums who likes to go on powertrips and har-ss people who are trying to have a bit of fun. they obtain this position by being either: 1. a complete sycophant to the webmaster or 2.devoting their entire waking hours to the praticular site
moderaters are total feltchmongers with inferiority complexes
someone who wants to be an administrator, with all accompanying godlike powers, but is incapable or unwilling to learn the required coding skills and hygiene required for office coexistence. a moderator is usually unemployable as such, and thus spends his/her time policing bboards, multiplayer games and chatrooms pretending to be important and useful, instead of actually doing the work to do so in real life. this m-ssive waste of time, if acc-mulated over years, results in a very large ego within a body in very poor health and physical condition, culminating in social disorders.
“my name is dragon wind unicorn rainbow queen of all furry mucks, and i am moderator of the dragon wind unicorn yiffyiff bboard/rpg chatroom/blah blah/jargon jargon and part-time mod on -chan. i may weigh 375 pounds in real life and live in a room full of rubbish and cat t-rds, but my character is a minyun hentai teen dragon black belt samurai transs-xual p-rnstar in +50 armor and she is a merciful destroyer of all trolls except those who beg for mercy.”
egotistical little pr-cks who delight in denying urbandictionary definitions and grouphug confessions. see also queer
i tried to make a halfway decent contribution to society and i got rejected by those d-mn moderators at urbandictionary. though they prefer the t-tle “editors”, because they like to feel for once as if they aren’t insignificant r-t-rds.
a total control freak. someone who either has no life or just has fun controlling yours. can be a parent, older sibling, teacher, pastor, anyone who you’re told and expected to listen to.
man, my sister is such a moderator! she never let’s me have friends over on weekdays, but she’s always going out to places.