# Where does a "your favourite moderators" thread go? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 16, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344 "2013-01-16T02:09:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/1 "2013-01-16T02:09:53Z")
Very first question - can someone either give a list of every moderator/administrator/anything else similar OR explain how to get them? I’m aware of the usual way of getting them through vbulletin as a user list but that doesn’t seem to work here cause I don’t see it. Second question - I’d like to post a “choose your favourite X moderators” thread… haven’t decided on X but I think it’ll be a number between 3 and 5. It should be a thread for _entirely positive sentiments_ so shouldn’t be problematic; I would like to put in IMHO - is that alright? And if not, can I put it in ATMB? And if not - where does it go? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/2 "2013-01-16T02:11:40Z")
For the first, if you go to each of the forums individually from the main page and scroll to the bottom, there’s a list of moderators on the right. For the second, IMHO sounds right. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/3 "2013-01-16T02:15:29Z")
You can get a list of mods by going to the main forum page, scrolling down, and looking for the forum leaders link. All the mods with active forum assignments are listed, so one or two ( **Lynn Bodoni** and perhaps **xash** ) aren’t listed. I think any poll about the mods would go in ATMB. And there’s no such thing as a thread for “entirely positive sentiments.” If you post a positive opinion of something, other people have the opportunity to respond in the negative if they want. This thread wouldn’t turn out the way you seem to think it would. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/4 "2013-01-16T02:16:34Z")
Thanks, I got this list: TubaDiva, Gfactor Rico, C K Dexter Haven, TubaDiva TubaDiva, C K Dexter Haven Colibri, samclem, Gfactor, Gary “Wombat” Robson Gaudere, Marley23, tomndebb Marley23, TubaDiva, twickster, tomndebb Marley23, twickster, Ellen Cherry, Gukumatz Gukumatz, Idle Thoughts, RickJay Ellen Cherry, Gukumatz, Idle Thoughts twickster, Ellen Cherry, Idle Thoughts Gary “Wombat” Robson, Rico Miller, Gfactor Ed Zotti, TubaDiva, RickJay That doesn’t seem everyone to me cause I know that Lynn Bodoni is a moderator? Edit: Marley - do you think that would be a bad idea then? I was going to vote for you, you know! 😉 Edit: I see no reason that a thread couldn’t be only for positive sentiments if it was outside of the pit cause it’s against the rules to criticse mods. Edit3: This has nothing to do with this thread at all but why are the modeators above not listed in any particular order? Doesn’t seem to be by either albhabet or indeed any well ordering scheme. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/5 "2013-01-16T02:23:52Z")
They’re sorted by height. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/6 "2013-01-16T02:23:54Z")
(for simplest example, which I just noticed now rather than the five people thing I saw at first, according to the thing above, in the second line Tubadiva \< C K Dexter Haven, but in the third line Tubadiva \> C K Dexter Haven) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/7 "2013-01-16T02:24:41Z")
You want to click [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showgroups.php). Like **Marley** said, it’s on the board index (AKA, the page you’re on when you see all the forums listed) and then at the very bottom, there’s a link called “View Forum Leaders”. That will lead you to the above link. ETA: There are a few staff members who aren’t on the list, but I’m pretty sure it’s just because they don’t have any specifically assigned forums (like **LynnBodoni** and **jdavis** ) ---
**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:** [January 16, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/8 "2013-01-16T03:45:46Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > Edit: I see no reason that a thread couldn’t be only for positive sentiments if it was outside of the pit cause it’s against the rules to criticse mods. I think \*\*Marley’s \*\*point is that, since it wouldn’t be \*enforced \*to be positive only, it likely wouldn’t be positive only. I don’t believe it’s against the rules to criticize mods. I see it happen fairly regularly. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/9 "2013-01-16T03:52:46Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > Edit: I see no reason that a thread couldn’t be only for positive sentiments if it was outside of the pit cause it’s against the rules to criticse mods. It’s not against the rules to criticize the mods. That’s one of the uses of ATMB. And in a thread like that, both positive and negative comments are allowed. If you start an ATMB thread saying you like a board feature, other people can say they hate it. If you say you hated some piece of moderation, other people can say they approve. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-a-your-favourite-moderators-thread-go/647344/10 "2013-01-16T06:35:30Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > ETA: There are a few staff members who aren’t on the list, but I’m pretty sure it’s just because they don’t have any specifically assigned forums (like **LynnBodoni** and **jdavis** ) **jdavis** is tech and should probably not be subjected to the usual hooliganism that Mods experience.