Ask The Tropers

• If there's a need for moderators and someone suitable is suggested this person might get promoted to their own ranks.
• Some mods have their specific domain, i.e. some specific forum threads they are responsible for. Some are responsible for all of it. They have various superpowers:
  • banning and unbanning users from editing the forum or wiki.
  • locking threads.
  • cut pages.
  • can create pages in the main name space without going through TLD.
  • hook, unhook and close crowners.
  • thumb other user's forum posts when they are embarrassing themselves.
  • even their word itself carries power.
• I don't know if there have ever been abuses. Most cases are pretty uncontentious and if they are debatable mods might for a consensus among mods. Since even mods can err even banned users get a chance to defend or redeem themselves.

If you have questions about mod actions (not including appeals and reports) you can go here

Mods aren't promoted. Whenever the site needs new ones, they're vat-grown using the site's mason jar full of "mod starter" (location undisclosed).

Occasionally one jumps out of the vat.

Once in a while, a youth get hit by a truck and reincarnate as TV Tropes mod.

When the planets align in the shape of a lampshade, Tropetan grants one special troper magic mod powers.

Don't ask about the sheep guts, though.

Could we get a lock? Question's been answered and the thread is rapidly descending into shitposting. Not that I mind shitposting, just, y'know, not when it's bumping a resolved query.