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A superpower you earn by caring too much and sleeping too little, unpaid.
means An unpaid volunteer who moderates an online community — enforcing rules, deleting spam, and settling fights for no pay but the title.
from Simply a clipping of 'moderator,' from Latin moderari, 'to control or regulate.' The internet sense took off with forums and bulletin boards in the 1990s, where someone had to keep the chaos in check — and 'moderator' got worn down to 'mod' the way any word does when you type it fifty times a day.
- origin
- short for moderator, not modification
- pay scale
- usually zero dollars, infinite stress
- power level
- can delete your post, not your opinion
- burnout rate
- notoriously high, badges never expire though