See subject. If Mods are non-coms, they’re the Joint Chiefs.
They can’t be reading every damn post in SD, right?
(One could continue by saying Ed Zotti is George Marshall and Cecil Roosevelt, The Triune God, Allah, Adonai, the very Buddha Nature and its denial, the Great Spaghetti Monster combined. I’ve left out 99^99% of other analogies. But Ed and Cecil are sui genera, and their inner nature are really outside this OP.)
Admins moderate, too. Ed doesn’t have much to do with the message board, though.
Sure, he makes everyone else do the grunt work, and he just rolls around naked in all the money you guys earn him, lighting his cigars with 14-dollar bills. Typical fat cat.
I think I heard they watch soap operas and eat chocolates all day long.
No, that’s the actual Joint Chiefs.
Who are the regular members that report posts?
Snitches, informers, moles?
This is what they look like in my head
No, no, that’s not right. The Mods get hookers and blow. The Admins get BETTER hookers and blow.
I think the Joint Chiefs actually watch soap operas and eat Taco Bell all day.
You both have almost got it right-They watch soap operas and eat Choco Tacos all day.
No, it doesn’t work like that. Moderating here is pretty collaborative, and the admins don’t tell the mods what to do.
No. It’s not even remotely possible. Some of the admins have forum moderating responsibilities and some don’t, but nobody has the time to read thousands of posts every day. The admins have some extra capabilities and can handle things like account merges or resetting passwords.
They also come into threads and kill the buzz with actual answers. :rolleyes:
returns to hookers and blow
Then my job here is done. 
A position to aspire to. 
That’s fantastic! 
Not yet. You haven’t locked everyone out lately.
Pleeeze, seriously you guyz, is there sort of some publicly-available jobs description/management structure of SD? I respect SD of course, and am always blabbing about it to other people, and not just because of all the special porn.
As I understand it, mods don’t get paid, but have a quasi-professional life that gives them time to earn bread by the sweat of he brow as well as read and actually think about, if ever so briefly but sufficiently, the disjecta of the masses. Or else they’re independently wealthy and have their houris do it for them.
Anyway, “eyeballs on threads–brain–decision–intervention or not” is how I see the notional structure of the mass of mods’ lives of quiet desperation.
They also have pow-wows, I gather. Like God this week, they inscribe people in the book of life or death, and decide who gets sealed in them. Occasionally in announcements of bannings and what not in ATMB you get a glimpse into the jury room. Potential-banner has no defender, per se.
Wonder what goes on there…
So really, pretend this is Wiki and thank God it is not: how does one get to be an Administrator? Can that really be an ability and responsibility which when added to a nickel will get you on a subway car?
No. I know an Admin can ban every single user with the click of a mouse button. What else do they do, are required, sort of, to do? Besides accept and reject hookers, blow, chocolate, etc.
Is it posted somewhere? I want the most transparent SD in history!
That’s it? That’s it?
Hmm, “extra capabilities…”
What ‘special porn’?! :dubious: 
Except on Tuesdays. That’s Marley’s day to be the hooker.