Senior Moderator for a day

[Crunchman]

You wake up just like any other day and serendipitously discover that you have senior moderator powers (not administrator, this is probably not that important of a detail but yeah). You don't have a badge or anything (of course you have the power to give yourself the smod badge if you so wish). Let's assume you won't have to deal with any of the consequences of your actions, because thinking before acting is lame. What do you do?

If you're already a senior moderator or higher and wish to rub it in us commonfolks' faces just tell us your life story or what you have for breakfast every day. or something.

 

[aurora]

i duly tell senior staff that a permission error has been made and willingly relinquish my ill-gotten power without doing anything

 

[Crunchman]

but you are the senior staff now...

 

[aurora]

in this scenario did i earn these powers properly, or is it a similar thing to my mod alum

 

[Crunchman]

you just randomly have them for a day and not even smods/admins can see that you have them or add/remove them

 

[Crunchman]

i will allow the hypothetical that you get your powers removed if you can get chaos to play a tour game again

 

[aurora]

hmm ok. uh. i would probably troll some of my friends by changing their avatars to pictures of various movie joker incarnations. then i would probably laugh at how funny i am and wait for their reactions

 

[Kalalokki]

i duly tell senior staff that a permission error has been made and willingly relinquish my ill-gotten power without doing anything

The best part about this is that it has happened exactly like this lol

Otherwise sending custom alerts to people is pretty fun and harmless.

 

[az]

one day we need a rundown of everythkng v got up to, straight from the horse's mouth

 

[CaffeineBoost]

Locking this thread...

 

[Arcticblast]

Color my super mod badge back in so I have a mod badge and a super mod badge active at the same time

Then have someone fix it

 

[KaenSoul]

 

[Shedinja-43152]

What do you do?

I would re-open my closed thread.

 

[Fishy]

definitely would check who stuart littled really was

 

[Let's go shuckles]

I fulfill my dream of founding shuckle paradise.

 

[Sijih]

a prescient prediction of phoopes' promotion

anyways I would edit the text when you hover on the name of a forum so that all the hover texts were fart jokes, à la my hollywood inspiration adam sandler

 

[E-create]

do nothing with it and carry on in life like any regular day

 

[boo836]

Post a thread in Blind Voting on Ezra's Shiny Magcargo being real

 

[KaenSoul]

Post a thread in Blind Voting on Ezra's Shiny Magcargo being real

Ezra's Shiny Magcargo: Ban

 

[Suehtemorp]

i would lock random threads with either really condescending messages or just this:

 

[Oglemi]

I would retitle the ladybug badge back to "I could be cool" and then only give it to dave, because he could be cool

 

[KarpeChan]

locking random metagame discussion threads and various projects (e.g next best thing)
locking suspect voting threads
locking tournament signup threads
these will cause mass confusion and i'll watch on the sidelines as the smogon discord burns
give myself enough badges to rival North Korean generals
make tiny formatting edits in resource threads (samples, VRs, good core threads, etc
for example unclosing brackets or capitalising letTers halfway through a word
fucking up scheduling in tournaments by shuffling parings every few hours
sneakily changing the time zone of suspect test/tour round ending dates
giving crunchman some cool badges and likes for blessing me with senior admin
revisit this thread for a reminder on what else i should do

watch all the chaos unfold.

 

[Maia]

Let's assume you won't have to deal with any of the consequences of your actions, because thinking before acting is lame. What do you do?

 

[Crunchman]

WHAT I’ve done nothing to deserve this

 

[Crunchman]

The smogon public will not stand for this