How many SDMB mods can you list, just off the top of your head?

Without doing any searching or deep dives or going out of this thread, how many SDMB mods can you name?
I’m talking about any member who has ever been a moderator (however short the tenure was–thinking of two specific ones here)…

So, from the beginning of these 1999 boards to now…
…how many?

List as many as you can in your reply. Not really fair to “team up” and only list ones others have missed, …that’s easy to do. What’s hard is to list them all in your own post and you can mention the ones that others forgot in THAT. Or ..what…can you only remember some (the ones others in here forgot) and not the ones the others in here GOT?? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Seriously, though…how many can you name in one post? I’ll award the top three in here who can. I very much doubt anyone can get them all, well, unless you’re a mod too,… like @Czarcasm MIGHT be able to…but not even I can remember them all, I don’t think…I couldn’t name them, at least, all in one place…
so yeah, good luck. Aim for the top three. I will not count anyone who simply “adds on” to someone else’s reply.

I can list at least one former mod (me). There was Colibri, Jonathon Chance, Tuba Diva, Currently, Puzzlegal, What_Exit. Super mod Ed Zotti. That’s all I can think of right offhand.

Let’s see how I do

Summary

Me
Czarcasm
Hari S
Bone
Johnathan Chance
Loach
Ivorytowerdenzien
fluiddruid
Lynn Bodoni
CK Dexter Haven
Colibri
Samclem
Spice Weasel
Puzzlegal
What Exit
Raventhief
Asmovian
Spectre of P
Cajun Man
Manhattan
Dr Matrix
DavidB
Alphagene
John Corrnado
TVeblen
UncleBeer
Ukulele Ike
Miller
Giraffe
SkipMagic
Euchy
Gaud…er..something.
xash
MEBuckner
Engineer Comp Geek
Marley
Twickster
Ellen Cherry
Hal Briston
Um…the one who used to co-mod the game room with me…heh, can’t remember his name off hand.

That’s not bad.
I know I’m probably missing or forgettilng a good 4 or 6, but I’ll take my trophy now, thank you.

@engineer_comp_geek could PROBABLY come along and blow this list out of the water.

Not a one. Even the ones that chastised me in the past.

We have a book by Colibri on a living room shelf, so that’s an easy one to remember (may his memory be a blessing).

Idle Thoughts
Engineer _Comp_Geek
Aspenglow
Czarcasm
Giraffe
Puzzlegal
Colibri
What_Exit?
Tuba Diva–?
Ed?
Somebody Chance

ETA:
Spiceweasel
UncleBeer?

ETA ETA:
Skip Magic?

I pay no attention to anybody’s username. To me everyone has the same voice, the same beliefs, and the same physical appearance as a vaguely human-shaped amorphous blob. I will recognise a name occasionally, but couldn’t tell you anything about what country they’re from, how long they’ve been here, or what their political opinions are, anything. So remembering who are Mods? Forget it.

manhattan, is he still around?

Aspenglow I know is one currently.

Eta: Jonathan Chance. Was Eutychus a mod? Arnold Winkelried, Frank, Lynn Bodoni, JillGat, tomndebb. Was Polycarp ever a mod?

Ok, here goes:

Tomndebb

Colibri

Czarcasm

Ellen Cherry

Twickster

TubaDiva

Johnathan Chance

Spiceweasel

Marley (I don’t think that was his full name but that’s what everyone called him. Marley23 maybe? He banned me once but had a change of heart and quietly unbanned me after realizing it was the other guy’s fault)

Miller

Puzzlegal

Engineer_comp_geek

Manhattan

I thought there was another Tom or maybe Todd or something mod but damned if I can remember their name.

I honestly thought I wouldn’t be able to remember a single one save Tubadiva. I’m not sure how many on the above list are even current mods.

I know I’m not going to win, since I haven’t been here from the beginning. But I’ll have a go anyway:

Current mods:
Engineer_Comp_Geek
What_Exit
Aspenglow
Puzzlegal
ParallelLines
Miller
RickJay
Chronos?

SuperMod:

Ed_Zotti

Past mods:

TubaDiva
Colibri
Bone
Hari_Seldon
Czarcasm
Spice_Weasel?

I’m sure I’ve missed even some current mods, since there are forums I rarely look at or rarely see moderated when I do.

From memory :-

  • What_Exit
  • Chronos
  • PuzzleGal
  • Aspenglow
  • Parallel_Lines
  • Miller
  • RickJay
  • Engineer_Comp_Geek
  • Tuba_Diva (rip)
  • Colibri (rip)

Eta: how’d I forget Ed ?!

Marley.

That’s it, off the top of my head, and only for his infamous site take-down mistake, and even that happened before I joined.

I compiled a list of every mod we’ve ever had, so it would be cheating if I posted.

FWIW, there are 54 names on my list.

Naw, not going to try.

(Reading other entries)

Huh, bunch of people i didn’t know were mods, bunch of people I’ve never heard of.

Puzzlegal.

When a name pops up in a thread I can say “oh yeah, that’s a mod”, but otherwise it doesn’t stick with me.

It doesn’t really stick for me either, but I want to thank the mods for keeping this place in line.

Oh wait, there’s one — @Miller , because I met him at the San Francisco Dope Fest back in 2023. I met his wife too.

Anyway, to the mods, I thank you for the work you do!

Let’s see, from the beginning (not counting AOL) and off the top of my head:

  1. Cecil Adams
  2. Ed Zotti
  3. Tubadiva
  4. Lynn Bodoni
  5. C K Dexter Haven
  6. manhattan
  7. Chronos
  8. Arnold Winkelreid
  9. DavidB
  10. tomndebb
  11. Eutychus
  12. Ukelele Ike
  13. Dr. Matrix
  14. CajunMan
  15. Melin
  16. bibliophage
  17. QED
  18. Czarcasm / Slythe
  19. xash
  20. Coldfire
  21. Jonathan Chance
  22. samclem
  23. EngineerCompGeek
  24. Marley23
  25. InvisibleWombat / Gary Robson
  26. Hari Seldon
  27. Spice Weasel
  28. Giraffe
  29. What Exit?
  30. Puzzlegal
  31. ParallelLines
  32. IdleThoughts
  33. Jerry (the original tech guy; while he never did any moderating, he technically had mod powers)

Ironically, I know I’m missing some of the current mods. This is partly because we communicate mostly through e-mail, so I recognize their email names more readily than their board names, and don’t always remember who’s who.

Man, there used to be a comic somewhere “What if everyone who had ever been an Avenger was still an Avenger?”, and it culminates with a scene of like sixty people showing up to rescue a cat stuck in a tree. But I can’t find it now.

There’s that guy (you know the one), the one who’s really annoying, the one we all miss, that other guy, the one who was banned, and of course, the one who banned all of us (for 20 minutes at the bottom of the Marianas trench)