# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/41 "2018-06-06T14:34:17Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Age? Pffft. I want to know which one is the tallest. > > I always pictured old **xash** as a giant among mods. Xash was smart AND cute, quite the combination. Sweet, too. A very nice guy all the way around. I miss him. All-time tallest would have to be Giraffe, of course, with … VegForLife next, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/42 "2018-06-06T14:46:31Z")
I heard **Arnold W** had the best looking knees. Is this true? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/43 "2018-06-06T14:54:56Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Ok, but who would win a royal rumble of mods? Which suggests a term to use for a group, like a gaggle of geese or a pride of lions. It’s a mumble of mods, right? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/44 "2018-06-06T14:56:27Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Which suggests a term to use for a group, like a gaggle of geese or a pride of lions. It’s a mumble of mods, right? Jackboot of mods. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/45 "2018-06-06T15:26:02Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Jackboot of mods. A Banning of Mods. ---
**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, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/46 "2018-06-06T15:36:38Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Which suggests a term to use for a group, like a gaggle of geese or a pride of lions. It’s a mumble of mods, right? > [@kunilou](#): > > Jackboot of mods. > [@Telemark](#): > > A Banning of Mods. A circling of mods ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/47 "2018-06-06T15:38:00Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > A circling of mods Win. ---
**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, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/48 "2018-06-06T15:40:45Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Win. Oh, how meta! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/49 "2018-06-06T16:30:49Z")
Enough of this, back to work. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/50 "2018-06-06T16:48:09Z")
Stop being so bossy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/51 "2018-06-06T22:32:03Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Enough of this, back to work. Reported for junior modding. ---
**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 6, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/52 "2018-06-06T23:05:00Z")
> [@JeffB](#): > > Reported for junior modding. _Lazy_ junior modding. ---
**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 7, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/53 "2018-06-07T01:32:23Z")
Best kind, really. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/54 "2018-06-07T03:25:49Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > 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. You might be thinking of Cronus, the titan … **Chronos** was his semi-cousin and shared three mothers with him … Seriously … _our_ **Chronos** cutting the balls off his own father ?!? … maybe some stray whelp but not his father … ---
**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 7, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/55 "2018-06-07T10:45:14Z")
While admittedly the identities of divine beings in classical myth were a bit fluid, and not entirely discrete, my name is specifically a reference to the personification of Time. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/56 "2018-06-07T12:28:14Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > While admittedly the identities of divine beings in classical myth were a bit fluid, and not entirely discrete, my name is specifically a reference to the personification of Time. Thus, you’re the oldest moderator and the youngest … alternating at 186,000 times a second … May I ask about your belly-button … does it really shoot plasma beams ??? ---
**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 7, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/57 "2018-06-07T13:42:21Z")
Shh! They’re on to us. The fact is moderators are quantum. During the interview process the individual meets with Ed. At that time they’re reduced to a quantum state in which they become both posters and moderators. This means that all of us are the same age since we exist in all times and spaces simultaneously. Really. It’s complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459/58 "2018-06-07T13:49:13Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > The tallest one ever was probably **Giraffe**. I don’t know now. Well, platform jackboots added about 5 inches of that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-moderators/815459.md?page=2)