Places the mods hang out that I run into them, off the top of my head:
All: Webcomics: xkcd
Fighteer: Webcomics: Darth And Droids, Goblins Life Through Their Eyes, Order Of The Stick. Videogames: World Of Warcraft. Other areas: TRS, IP.
Madrugada: Webcomics: Schlock Mecenary, Girl Genius, Eerie Cuties. Other areas: TRS, IP, Oldfolks home.
Bobby G: OTC, Wiki Talk, Trope Talk. Used to be in IJBM a lot.
Meta Four: Webcomics: Space Trawler, Gunnerkigg Court*
Morven: OTC: Military Thread, YF: Gun Porn. Old folks home.
blackcat: Old folks home. I vaguely recall some Webcomics, I want to say she hangs with Maddy on those threads, but I might just be getting confused in my old age.
Camacan: TRS, IP.
Tangent128:Webcomics: Girl Genius. ????
Note that these are only places that I run into them as chatters/tropers rather than as a mod stepping in to do something.
Fight smart, not fair.Tangent seems to step in places Pokemon-y. I know he's one of the biggest advertisers for Char Cole around.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -LandstanderBobby G hangs out in Writer's Block sometimes (mostly in the Character Development Thread), while Madrugada pokes into the Random Question Thread. Since I started posting, she had been the only mod to use the mod hat at Writer's Block. I think I seen blackcat once or twice.
It's a small community there, so it's easy to identify all the regulars. I can clearly see when a newbie arrives.
edited 13th Jul '11 8:11:19 PM by chihuahua0
@ CA: Yep. Note also that they change shape and picture quality depending on the size and shape of the avatar we're currently using.
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffSee, I don't go to those threads. I'm not a writer, and utterly loath doing it. I step in everyone once in a while and check for any scifi-ish threads.
Fight smart, not fair.Actually, I just need to point this out, but the first time I saw the coloured mod posts with the hats and the title "with mod hat on" (mostly the last part) I immediately thought of the Star Trek episode Darmok and then what would "Fighteer, with mod hat on." have meant to the aliens there?
edited 16th Jul '11 3:34:01 PM by Balmung
Why was The Handle thumped, did he thump himself? And if you thump yourself with a mod thump (not just a thump), do you send yourself a thump message?
ETA:No Wiki markup does not stop thumps from happening.
edited 6th May '12 5:54:04 AM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial FlameI'm almost certain that these days, when a moderator thumps you, the thump text appears yellow.
NO TREE FOR ME (ALSO LOVES HER BOYFRIEND)I thought this thread was resurrected by someone who thumped themself
. The thread probably would have been locked if that wasn't the case.
Unless you were taking the title of this thread literally.
edited 6th May '12 6:06:42 AM by UltimatelySubjective
The only thump that has black text is the basic [thump]. It has five messages it can give you, and if you reload the page then different ones can appear on the same post.
All the other thumps have cinnamon text (though the expanded [rules] one has black text after the link, which is probably related to the bug in reasons on page edit histories). There are a couple I don't know the markup for – this one
and this one
.
Thumping yourself doens't send a PM and I'm fairly sure it doesn't appear on your record.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.I cycled through all the messages I knew on one post (since you can edit a self-thumped post), including the ones that give cinammon text, and didn't get a PM. Presumably I can't PM myself!
The five things you can be basic-thumped by are:
- the Stick of Post Thumping
- the Eldritch Flyswatter of Horror
- the Shillelagh of Whackingness
- the Codfish in a Derby Hat
- the Merciless Hammer of Doom

Oh, are the mod hat avatars hard-coded or something?
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