# Do we have a new moderator? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 30, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351 "2018-11-30T20:32:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/1 "2018-11-30T20:32:03Z")
New sign-up: [**seanchayes** -Moderator](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) Wassup? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/2 "2018-11-30T20:54:36Z")
Yeah, what’s The Dirty? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/3 "2018-11-30T21:03:30Z")
Talk about jumping the queue. 😛 ---
**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:** [November 30, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/4 "2018-11-30T21:22:55Z")
Apparently it is a new ID created to tinker with some of the administrative functions. Not a new moderator. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/5 "2018-11-30T21:25:03Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Apparently it is a new ID created to tinker with some of the administrative functions. Not a new moderator. So if something goes wrong you can blame it on “seanchayes”, right? 😃 ---
**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:** [November 30, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/6 "2018-11-30T21:25:54Z")
I usually blame in on Asimovian - no reason to change what works! ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/7 "2018-11-30T21:26:38Z")
The rest of us moderators haven’t been told anything. I don’t think we have a new moderator, but what we do have is someone who has been given moderator privileges in the system (I have some additional info available that indicates this is a legitimate user and this isn’t a hack or anything we need to worry about). Since none of us have been told anything, I am assuming this is for some behind-the-scenes IT work or something along those lines. We may never know exactly what it’s for. It’s probably for something very boring. It wouldn’t be the first time that one of our technical folks has created a user name to test something. Most of the time nobody notices, they test whatever they want to test, and that’s the end of it. Jerry had at least half a dozen socks to test things out with back when he was our technical admin. No biggie. ETA: Damn ninjas. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/8 "2018-11-30T21:27:44Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > So if something goes wrong you can blame it on “seanchayes”, right? > 😃 Shame they didn’t call it “The Boogie”. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/9 "2018-11-30T21:31:28Z")
The rest of us moderators have been told something now. It’s just someone fixing some minor IT issues. Like I said, no biggie. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/10 "2018-11-30T21:40:45Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > It’s just someone fixing some minor IT issues. Damned space spider clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/11 "2018-11-30T21:43:33Z")
So he isn’t the head Moderator for the new Secret Moderator Forum? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/12 "2018-11-30T21:45:36Z")
seanchayes? Is the next admin going to be will&grace? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/13 "2018-11-30T21:49:34Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > So he isn’t the head Moderator for the new Secret Moderator Forum? I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the Secret Moderator Forum and I can neither confirm nor deny that **seanchayes** is the moderator of said forum, if it exists. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/14 "2018-11-30T21:54:44Z")
Yeah-_They_ denied there was a secret cow level in “Diablo”, too. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/15 "2018-11-30T22:10:12Z")
My understanding is he’s the new Hamster Wrangler. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/16 "2018-11-30T23:16:36Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > My understanding is he’s the new Hamster Wrangler. Allegedly ---
**Author:** ![Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reindeer_flotilla/32/3024_2.png) [@Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reindeer_Flotilla)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-new-moderator/825351/17 "2018-11-30T23:20:52Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Shame they didn’t call it “The Boogie”. You shake your body all the way to your room and think about what you’ve done.