# Is there a Moderator timeline available? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 22, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467 "2023-03-22T01:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/21 "2023-03-24T04:51:44Z")
I suppose that \*\*\*\*n is unperson? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/22 "2023-03-24T04:53:06Z")
Who was left off the list? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/23 "2023-03-24T20:05:00Z")
She who must not be named. She who is Damnatio memoriae. She who is absent from the ti_melin_e altogether. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/24 "2023-03-24T20:05:54Z")
Yeah. Whatever. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/25 "2023-03-27T12:54:20Z")
In case you didn’t get it, I put the letters [m-e-l-i-n](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melingate-101/5472) in italics for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/26 "2023-03-27T13:31:08Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I suppose that \*\*\*\*n is unperson? So … that was supposed to say melin in italics ? ---
**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:** [March 27, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/27 "2023-03-27T14:14:47Z")
No, this does. > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > She who must not be named. She who is Damnatio memoriae. She who is absent from the ti_melin_e altogether. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/28 "2023-03-27T14:29:41Z")
Ah. Too subtle ! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/29 "2023-03-27T16:45:17Z")
I admit, that was very clever. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/30 "2023-03-27T17:25:01Z")
@Rico announced his resignation in October 2014: [I'm moving on...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-moving-on/701504) More on @Melin here: [Melin has been banned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melin-has-been-banned/4855) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/31 "2023-03-28T09:01:43Z")
Was that the first instance of someone threatining to sue the Dope? ---
**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:** [March 28, 2023, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/32 "2023-03-28T09:03:14Z")
Perhaps in another thread? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/33 "2023-03-30T19:32:47Z")
**Frank** went by the handle **This Year’s Model** for the first few months of his modship. The name change took effect on or about 12/13/2005. **Chronos** ended his first run as GQ moderator on the same day DrMatrix and I started, 8/20/2001. **Cajun Man** began his modship, I think, in February 2002, or maybe late January. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467/34 "2023-03-30T20:31:13Z")
**TVeblen** 11/20/2002 to (I think) early 2006 **JillGat** served at least two terms as mod, first from some date unknown to 5/15/2000 and again from about March 2001 to 4/29/2002. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-moderator-timeline-available/981467.md?page=1)