Mods and ordinary jellies, if one day you could trade places for a week, what would you do?

I’m bad, I’d screw with a few jellies just for the fun of it, but not mean stuff.

Get free psychiatrists for the more colorful members on the sight.

Change places with a few Jellies and find out who I am.

I would restrict my duties to breaking up fights and settling disputes

I would hunt down chronic spammers and find out who they are.

And then what?

I’ve been using IRC for about 15 years to create alternative, non-hierarchical versions of authoritarian channels by appending a ”-sucks” to the channel name so it appears right after the official channel in the channel list. Over the years I’ve tried many different non-hierarchical systems for sharing executive power without the risk of a takeover by anyone and finally hit on a formula which works well.

When I have the chance, I also take over IRC channels which need some anti-authoritarianism, converting them into a non-hierarchical model. Sometimes the channel survives the transition and sometimes it doesn’t; turns out some channels exist for the primary purpose of establishing a hierarchy and when that is removed, the channel dies – and good riddance, says I. If I got my hands on the wheels of Fluther, I can guarantee you this place would operate very differently. Whether or not it survived would depend on whether people are here for community and sharing of skills or for establishing a pecking order of superiority. Given the number of knob-slobbering boot-lickers who can’t wait to kiss the ass of anyone on Fluther they think wields authority, I have my suspicions about which is more likely.

Firstly, as a matter of extreme urgency, i’d warn off those members who feel the need to insert their heads up the mods arses, back off dipshits, this sheriff aint gonna oblige.
Then i’d ban them & any fucker else who takes the site way too seriously, be gone puny charlatans.

I know you would, ucme. I know you would.

Would you like a medal or a chest to put it on?

I was on a message board years ago, and the admin and mods decided to play a prank. They were banning people left and right, one after the other. You posted like one message, and they would get “pissed off”, make up a reason why you broke a rule, and then ban you. I asked in a thread where like 7 people got banned “what the fuck happened here” and got banned for swearing.
Then they invited me in a chat room, and told me it was a prank. All the banned people were there in the chat session, so we sat there for an hour, laughing our asses off as half of the rest of the unbanned members were being overly nice in fear of being banned.
Well most of them figured out it was a prank, but still, all their attitudes changed, it was hilarious.

When all was restored to order, some dude went apeshit and told the whole staff team that the prank sucked and they should all go fuck themselves. Ah, good times, when forums and message boards were da hip place to waste all your time. :D

Now, that’s not what I would do as a mod. But this is what this question reminded me of.

I would bring back Yarnapoppalips because I missed it the first time.

I would also open the Frizzer question so people could still comment.

Then I would ban everybody, even me.

But….A while back ThornInMud made it clear, pretty quick, that is isn’t going to happen, and gave me a special avatar to prove it. sigh.

I’d also close the site down for a week or two, in the summertime so the lock in’s could get themselves out for a spot of fresh air, give them poor souls some pause.
I’m good like that XD

Well, that would wreck half my day for a week, @ucme!

I’d probably get all dressed up nice and proper like This and start handin’ out cupcakes instead of lurve.

Probably just read some pm’s. I’m sure there are a lot of interesting conversations that happen via pm!

Oh, I’d probably complain about how things are run here, and reminisce about how much better it used to be.

“Ban everyone.”
– “What do you mean, “everyone”?
“EEEEVVVERYYYYONE!”

I would retire from fluther for a week. I would hate to be a mod.

I had planned to launch a series of annoying and non-guideline-appropriate questions before I was asked to take up modding. I would ask all those. It would amuse no-one but myself, but I am most dear to me.

^^^ “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”—Sun Tzu

^ Yeah, though I’m still wondering how you knew what I was about to do. Can we hack into jellies’ minds? You’ll need to show me how, one of these days. During one of our “giggling-at-PMs-and-observing-users-via-webcam”-parties? ;)

^^ ^^ I am so confused right now. Waaah! I WANT AUGGIE!!