Ninjamods.

After the glorious rise of the Sanmods (if you believe Mut's showboating), and their eventual dispersal, GotWoot was left in need of more active moderators. Of the Sanmods, only Assertn was still kicking around, and a lot of moderators were either inactive or pretty much lazy. Some good people, but either too nice to be terribly effective (NM and Kitkat) or too terrible to be very nice.(kAi, Budweineken before he got lame and changed his name) To tell you something about that time period, Terracosmo was a forum admin.

Ninjamods became pretty general practice. Instead of flaunting, mods would sneak in under the cover of darkness and edit posts or warn/ban users. There was no way of telling who edited a post or sent out a ban, and although word got around about some people's mod status, it was pretty much the nerds with too much time and their cloak of justice and the trolls and idiots with their howling retardation.

And then came vBulletin, and for boring, technical reasons that complich8 nearly put me into a Mariana Trench deep coma going on about, the ninja mod no longer became a viable tool. This was pretty much smack in the middle of the Reputation Dramatics, and, well, things got a bit ugly.... or, well, the ugliness got a bit more personal, perhaps...


Jadugar boldly unmasks the "super mods"
http://forums.gotwoot.net/showthread...ght=moderators