# What do moderators do (besides...moderating)?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-moderators-do-besides-moderating/648629>\
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**Created:** [January 28, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-moderators-do-besides-moderating/648629 "2013-01-28T18:11:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-moderators-do-besides-moderating/648629/21 "2013-01-30T23:48:42Z")

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> [@Tupac](#):
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> How much time do you guys usually spend on any given week?

I think it varies tremendously.

I’m on here about 40-60 hrs/week.

Marley would be the outlier on the high side. He’s on here 100+ hrs/week. 😉

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-moderators-do-besides-moderating/648629/22 "2013-01-30T23:54:27Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> We do get free membership.

I still have my coffee mug, too.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-moderators-do-besides-moderating/648629/23 "2013-01-30T23:55:47Z")

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> [@Tupac](#):
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> How much time do you guys usually spend on any given week?

> [@samclem](#):
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> I think it varies tremendously.
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> I’m on here about 40-60 hrs/week.
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> Marley would be the outlier on the high side. He’s on here 100+ hrs/week. 😉

It varies not only from mod to mod but by mod, depending on what we have going on elsewhere in our lives. I’m a freelancer, for instance, so if I have a deadline on a given day I’ll give my fellow mods the heads up that I’m not available. Other days I’m mostly responding to post reports; still other days I’m reading not only “my” forums but the others in a leisurely thread-by-thread way and either dealing preemptively with stuff or flagging posts in forums I don’t mod.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-moderators-do-besides-moderating/648629/24 "2013-01-31T06:21:44Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Personally, I’d like to see a compilation of some of the more idiotic or weird questions that Cecil gets.

Some of the older columns occasionally had a section called “Questions we’re still thinking about” which I think is what these were. Haven’t seen it for a while.

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