# Super Moderator? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650 "2002-03-11T19:07:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/1 "2002-03-11T19:07:02Z")
Is there any difference between this designation and a regular mod? Xplain to the blonde, please. . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/2 "2002-03-11T19:09:16Z")
They have the power to see through socks and trolls! They can leap over tall arguments! They have really bendy thumbs! They can wear capes and get away with it! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/3 "2002-03-11T21:37:29Z")
This title doesn’t appear to be present anymore, but I can venture a guess as to its meaning. On the old version of the board, each mod was officially associated with one forum, but all had equal powers in all fora (sort of like city cops, working elsehwere in the state. They usually don’t, out of courtesy to other city police forces, but they can). I’m guessing that the easiest way to implement that situation in the current version was to make all of the mods “Super Moderators”, and then to manually change the title back. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/4 "2002-03-11T22:17:02Z")
But But BUT… Chronos, YOU were a mod, what happened??? And, ftr, I was referring to the description under Cajun Man’s name (super moderator). ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/5 "2002-03-11T22:30:28Z")
Chronos is correct. All the mods are super-mods, but not all of them have the title changed. I should go fix Cajun man’s title. ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/6 "2002-03-11T23:10:08Z")
Shoot, I thought we were finally going to have a situation where the cape did enable the user to fly. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/7 "2002-03-12T03:05:29Z")
Gaudere’s an admin? When did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/8 "2002-03-12T03:43:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cleophus \* > \*\*Gaudere’s an admin? When did that happen? \*\* One month ago the moderator Gaudere, enraged by the tampering of the old board, burst into a fire brighter than a thousand suns. And though she burned, she was not consumed. Yesterday the fire was finally extinguished. From the ashes, she was reborn, as administrator Gaudere, and shortly thereafter assumed into heaven to take her place among the pantheon. Or something like that… ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/9 "2002-03-12T15:18:13Z")
**Dr. Lao** , are you telling us that **Gaudere** moved to Phoenix? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/10 "2002-03-12T19:21:58Z")
> [@](#): > > But But BUT… > Chronos, YOU were a mod, what happened??? Old news, but I’m glad you care. At the beginning of the fall semester, my classload got to be too much to put in mod time. I stepped down the same day that **bibliophage** and **DrMatrix** stepped up. I’m still on the SDSAB, though, so expect a few Reports once they return. And speaking of status changes, it seems that **Noodles** has been administerized, as well. My guess is that since both he and **Gaudere** are so technically adept (IIRC, **Gaudere** is a graphics designer and **Noodles** is a database administrator), the Powers that Be decided that their skills could be useful to the administration of the board. _[fixed coding - **DrMatrix**]_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/11 "2002-03-12T22:23:25Z")
Look . . . Up in the sky! It’s a bird. . . . It’s a plane. No, it’s **Cajun Man**! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/12 "2002-03-13T03:35:48Z")
Um…who is **Noodles**? Did I miss something?!?! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-moderator/97650/13 "2002-03-13T04:16:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*\*mnemosyne \*\* > Um…who is **Noodles**? **Arnold Winkelried** is Noodles.