Forum Moderator

Moderator's Badge, used by all forum moderators that are not Administrators, PPP Mods or Badge Mods.

A moderator (mod) in the context of a forum moderator, has powers higher than regular members. Such powers include moving a topic, deleting a topic, editing posts and closing/opening topics. While they don't have as much power as administrators, they do hold a responsibility above members in keeping the forums as stable as possible in the absence of other moderators.

There are a number of different moderator types:

Forum-Specific Moderators

Ordinary Moderators have power over only one (or two) forums, however they are able to ban anyone so can use "cross forum moderation" in an emergency.

The current Forum Mods are Rage in the Arts Board and Parakarry, Black Squirrel, ShadowMan, Trasher, Bacteriophage, and Press Start in the Submit-it. Note however that the Submit-it mods do not have banning powers.

Global Moderators

In June, 2007, the incumbent mods of the old system were upgraded to Global Moderators, while new mods were appointed for specific forums. Global mods have the same powers as ordinary moderators however they moderate every board rather than just one.

The current Global Moderators are Captain Jeff Silvers, Jak, Fanguy, Kommandant Dragmire, and Tragic.

CCC Moderators

In addition, there exists a stripped-down variation of moderator known as a CCC Mod (Previously PPP Mod) that moderates the Casual Conversation Castle. Black Squirrel and Bacteriophage are CCC Mods as Jas was promoted to admin status and Hatman resigned. CCC Mods cannot ban or stretch their powers outside of the CCC, but still carry all other mod powers. Their main purpose is to try and keep the CCC relatively spam-free as that board is too big for global mods and administrators alone.

Past Moderators

Past moderators include Nite Shadow, supertoad2k, and SonicProject. Hatman was also a PPP Mod for a short time. Joey was moderator of the General Chat between June and November 14th, 2007. In addition to this, all site staff (except for comment moderators) are given mod powers for the Submit-it, so Ylle, Delmore and Toodles Team have also been moderators in the past.