# Mods are the non-coms. What do Admins do all day? Read field reports only? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 5, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049 "2013-09-05T02:50:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/41 "2013-09-06T21:32:58Z")
I once got a free set of address labels. Oh, wait, that was from some charity soliciting funds. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/42 "2013-09-07T01:12:13Z")
Jeez, doesn’t anybody file a W-2? Do you all raise each other’s kids too? All the money from ads and subs goes to the hamsters? Chicago Trib supplies you with…what? ::follows the money…:: ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/43 "2013-09-08T00:07:01Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Admins do not get Swedish Massages. Meatballs. They get Swedish Meatballs. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/44 "2013-09-08T02:02:27Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Man, that’s harsh. You ban everybody just one time and nobody ever lets you forget it. Just ask Seamus the Goat Fucker. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/45 "2013-09-08T02:04:28Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > [del]YAnd you left out the part about unlimited draft beer and the mini marshmellows in the hot cocoa.[/del] But nevermind. [del]I thought it was unlimited 18 year old single malt scotch and peeps in the hot cocoa that you never got.[/del] ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/46 "2013-09-08T15:55:10Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Just ask Seamus the Goat Fucker. I had to look that up. (Found it on SD too). Nice. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/47 "2013-09-08T23:13:52Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > [del]I thought it was unlimited 18 year old single malt scotch and peeps in the hot cocoa that you never got.[/del] The 18-year-old single malt Scotch is no longer unlimited, after the incident where – oops! I’m not allowed to talk about that. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/48 "2013-09-09T00:57:31Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:47, topic:668049”] The 18-year-old single malt Scotch is no longer unlimited, after the incident where – oops! I’m not allowed to talk about that. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah. I never expected something like that from Dex, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/49 "2013-09-09T01:10:25Z")
Howcum **TubaDiva** gets to announce who all the new mods are? Some Admins are more Admin-y than others, hmmm? She even gets the announcement icon stickie thingie whenever she wants. I sense wheels within wheels. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/50 "2013-09-09T02:50:50Z")
Tuba knows where the bodies are buried, so to speak. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/51 "2013-09-09T03:07:51Z")
Hell, she buried at least half of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/52 "2013-09-09T03:26:05Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Howcum **TubaDiva** gets to announce who all the new mods are? > > Some Admins are more Admin-y than others, hmmm? > She even gets the announcement icon stickie thingie whenever she wants. I sense wheels within wheels. It’s not that she GETS to, it’s that she HAS to. 😉 ---
**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:** [September 9, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/53 "2013-09-09T03:42:37Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Howcum **TubaDiva** gets to announce who all the new mods are? Well, duh. Because she has the tuba. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/54 "2013-09-12T18:09:05Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > When a warning is issued, a notice is posted in a separate forum, and a notation is placed on the poster’s profile. So checking the warning forum will show who’s been causing trouble recently regardless of who issued the warning. So we all have one of those dreaded _permanent records_ that includes everything you’ve ever done wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049/55 "2013-09-12T18:44:08Z")
> [@Hermitian](#): > > So we all have one of those dreaded _permanent records_ that includes everything you’ve ever done wrong. Making a note that Hermitian failed to properly capitalize _“Permanent Record”_ [Drama button](http://www.dramabutton.com/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-are-the-non-coms-what-do-admins-do-all-day-read-field-reports-only/668049.md?page=2)