# What do the mods do all day? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 19, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981 "2010-05-19T06:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/21 "2010-06-03T19:32:45Z")
But what about the bribes and such? Do the Mods share with the Admins? Or is there some black market clandestine competition thing going on? (Jenny, you’re chocolate is on the way. Please don’t mail that letter.) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/22 "2010-06-03T23:54:25Z")
Do you guys have schedules? Work in shifts? Tag-team? Or do you more or less pop in to do your moddin’ whenever it tickles your fancy? Do you have quotas you have to meet, like moderating for a certain number of hours a week or month or whatever? ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/23 "2010-06-04T00:15:08Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > We aren’t employees, we’re volunteers, and this is a sort of hobby for us. > > Most of us are REALLY in it for the jackboots and the mod mugs that we get. Jackboots? **JACKBOOTS**? That’s ALL we mean to you? A pair of fucking **jackboots**? Aren’t we at least worth a stiletto heel, or two? :mad::mad::(☹ ---
**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:** [June 4, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/24 "2010-06-04T00:20:46Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Do you guys have schedules? Work in shifts? Tag-team? Or do you more or less pop in to do your moddin’ whenever it tickles your fancy? Do you have quotas you have to meet, like moderating for a certain number of hours a week or month or whatever? No, there’s no real schedule. We’re on line when our schedules permit. If we are going to be off-line for an extended period, we let the other moderators know. As for what I do all day, it depends on how long it takes me to gnaw through the restraints. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/25 "2010-06-04T00:20:59Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > As for me . . . I own a mansion and a yacht. “My name is Elmer Fudd, er Tuba Diva, millionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht…” ---
**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:** [June 4, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/26 "2010-06-04T03:38:42Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > Jackboots? **JACKBOOTS**? That’s ALL we mean to you? A pair of fucking **jackboots**? Aren’t we at least worth a stiletto heel, or two? :mad::mad::(☹ Hey, I DID say we got a mug, too. And I would never wear stilettos, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/27 "2010-06-04T03:55:33Z")
After the last couple of days in GD, I have begun considering a career in drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/28 "2010-06-04T04:45:58Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > After the last couple of days in GD, I have begun considering a career in drinking. Need a consultant? I’m currently at home with sick leave (broken leg) and my current job’s contract runs out before my sick leave does, so I actually have no idea what I’m doing. But probably something else in IT. The wonderful thing about being in IT, at least in Norway, is that it’s implicit that you’re going to spend a certain percentage of your time online doing not exactly what you’re supposed to. So I’m pretty free to pop in and have a look. Why I do the job? _Because your tears are delicious to me._ ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/29 "2010-06-04T04:53:19Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > After the last couple of days in GD, I have begun considering a career in drinking. I can guess the thread you’re thinking about. I’ve been in there and said to myself, “reply… or swig… reply… or swig?”… “Screw it, I’ll get into less trouble swigging. Fuck the reply!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/30 "2010-06-04T05:01:45Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > … The wonderful thing about…IT The wonderful thing about ITiggers, ITiggers are a wonderful thing! Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs! I’ll leave the “tears are delicious to me” bit alone… ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/31 "2010-06-04T05:33:44Z")
I just realized I missed this one: _**What do mods do all day? Do dah, Do dah. What do mods do all day? Oh do dah day…**_ ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/32 "2010-06-04T06:05:30Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > So what do y’all do besides this? And more importantly, how do you look in a bikini? > [@tomndebb](#): > > After the last couple of days in GD, I have begun considering a career in drinking. As a shop steward for Siberian Salt Mines (local #419) I’ll be happy to give you a union card and a bottle of vodka to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/33 "2010-06-04T07:21:57Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > These are some of the most obvious cover stories for superheroes I’ve seen in a good while. I mean, editor and writer doing freelance work until the economy picks up? In-home computer repair? These just scream super hero. They’re the perfect description of a job you can easily run away from in the middle of the day if someone starts trying to take over the world. > > It’s either that you are all just billionaires with nothing better to do and have to pretend you’re all just regular shmoes like us, inbetween cigars and sips of brandy of course. Paging Fenris… ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/34 "2010-06-04T13:38:35Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > After the last couple of days in GD, I have begun considering a career in drinking. I produce top quality wines. Let me know your needs. (Priced for idle millionaires). ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/35 "2010-06-05T20:16:19Z")
That’s nice to hear, **Gymnopithys**. Too many posters here produce inferior-quality whines. Uh…What? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/36 "2010-06-05T21:11:42Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > That’s nice to hear, **Gymnopithys**. Too many posters here produce inferior-quality whines. > > Uh…What? Spammer hacked his account? A lousy spammer who forgot to include a link? BTW, for those who didn’t get my reference: Fenris a long time ago revealed the superhero origins of a lot of the staff. Someone pointed it out as one of their favorite threads, so I had a look. But I can’t find it in search so y’all can read them. Plus, I thought we might could get him to do the newer mods. Then again, since this is not his primary board anymore, maybe not. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981/37 "2010-06-06T03:16:04Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Do you have quotas you have to meet, like moderating for a certain number of hours a week or month or whatever? My quota is a bribe a day. Hurry! There’s only a few hours left to help me hit today’s quota! > [@kopek](#): > > And more importantly, how do you look in a bikini? Finding out would scar you for life. I’m 6’4" tall, 270 pounds, and furry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-mods-do-all-day/539981.md?page=1)