# A few questions about moderators **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 5, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459 "2018-06-05T13:16:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/21 "2018-06-05T20:32:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I feel like this thread is turning into one of those logic puzzles where we’re given a series of random clues and we need to figure out everyone’s age. But we need more categories like everyone’s favorite football team and ice cream flavor. > > “The youngest moderator cheers for the Patriots.” > “The person who likes vanilla ice cream doesn’t cheer for the Steelers or the Bears.” > "Asimovian is younger than Jonathan Chance and neither likes strawberry. I loved those! ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/22 "2018-06-05T20:34:28Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I feel like this thread is turning into one of those logic puzzles where we’re given a series of random clues and we need to figure out everyone’s age. But we need more categories like everyone’s favorite football team and ice cream flavor. > > “The youngest moderator cheers for the Patriots.” > “The person who likes vanilla ice cream doesn’t cheer for the Steelers or the Bears.” > "Asimovian is younger than Jonathan Chance and neither likes strawberry. I like it. And at least one of your proposed statements is true, while at least one of them is false. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/23 "2018-06-05T21:35:49Z")
Age? Pffft. I want to know which one is the tallest. I always pictured old **xash** as a giant among mods. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/24 "2018-06-05T21:37:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I’m willing to bet that **Rico** is the largest Mod. Sucker is built like a brick wall. Or he was the last time I saw him. Then I shouldn’t have mocked him I guess. Sorry **Rico**! [Seriously, I honestly have never seen a note or warning or anything w/ [moderating] from him, or at least don’t recall…edit, nope, only a handful of posts in the past few years, a plurality in the Death Pool thread-which I don’t follow-and no other recent mod actions] ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/25 "2018-06-05T21:53:46Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Age? Pffft. I want to know which one is the tallest. > > I always pictured old **xash** as a giant among mods. A giant among mods, maybe. A giant among men, not quite. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/26 "2018-06-05T22:06:13Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Age? Pffft. I want to know which one is the tallest. The tallest one ever was probably **Giraffe**. I don’t know now. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/27 "2018-06-05T22:12:37Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Not saying. Especially since in a couple weeks whatever I say will be wrong. 🙂 So 29.something? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/28 "2018-06-05T22:30:04Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > So 29.something? 😉 Or something ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/29 "2018-06-05T22:40:20Z")
My motto is, you can never have too many 29th birthdays. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/30 "2018-06-05T22:55:05Z")
Wikipedia says that **Chronos** is the grandfather of all the Greek gods and goddesses … that’s pretty old I guess … but time is relevant, not linear, or am I confused again? … ETA: If the moderators could please tell us which of you have innie belly-buttons and which have outies … except for **Lil’ Ed** … I’d rather not know if you don’t mind … ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/31 "2018-06-05T23:12:39Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > [I’ve never seen Rico before.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21001107&postcount=23) Hither whence thou didst hibernate, I gather? Hanging around in the Copacabana, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/32 "2018-06-05T23:29:55Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Huh. You know, I don’t honestly know. I don’t think we’ve ever discussed our ages. > > The one thing I’m certain of is that it’s not me. That feels pretty solid. > > For what it’s worth, I’m 51. I started here when I was 33, just before my first child was born - about 2 weeks before - and she’s just graduated high school this week. Now that’s stamina. Pretty sure I’d burn out after about 24 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/33 "2018-06-06T00:15:39Z")
Just five as a mod. 18 as a poster. And, to quote Tori Amos: “If you know me so well, tell me which hand I use.” ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/34 "2018-06-06T00:50:06Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Wikipedia says that **Chronos** is the grandfather of all the Greek gods and goddesses … that’s pretty old I guess … but time is relevant, not linear, or am I confused again? … But _that_ Chronos cut his father’s balls off and ate most of his children. I believe how **Chronos** spells his name is confusing you–or me :), as well as everybody else confounding the myths over millennia–with the God of Time. Who had, as does I hope his namesake, a much quieter home life. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/35 "2018-06-06T01:00:48Z")
Ok, but who would win a royal rumble of mods? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/36 "2018-06-06T01:07:10Z")
IIRC, we did discuss relative ages at one point in the mod loop, and at the time, I was the second-youngest, but I don’t remember who was younger, and that might be outdated now. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/37 "2018-06-06T01:13:10Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Ok, but who would win a royal rumble of mods? Well, me. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/38 "2018-06-06T01:30:04Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I am 66. As far as I know, I am the third-oldest mod. I will leave it to my seniors to reveal who they are… 🙂 Since they probably won’t show up, I’m guessing **Gaudere** and **Samclem.** ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/39 "2018-06-06T04:15:16Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Since they probably won’t show up, I’m guessing **Gaudere** and **Samclem.** I’ve met them both. She’s much younger than I, and he’s older than I am. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/40 "2018-06-06T07:39:33Z")
Someone pinged me on this; I’m 29 at the moment. I was 21 in 2009 when I started modding the Game Room, which was new at the time, and retired in the middle of 2015. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459.md?page=3)