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Rise of the Sanmods

Let's break down the definition of what Sanmods are. San means three in Japanese; just like the Sannin in Naruto. I'm not going to explain the suffix.

AssertnFailure, Gods_Son, and I have become some of the more popular posters of GW and idlers of IRC for certain reasons. Whether it was for making valid, logical arguments in the ridiculous Naruto threads, making entertaining threads to get GW members to become more active, or simply just trolling, we were pretty much the popular kids at our community (e-penis++).

In late September of 2004, AssertnFailure, one of our forums' better posters was given the title of Moderator as well as the privileges and powers that come with it. I found this out five days later when I came back from going home that weekend before my birthday. I realized that this was just another step into becoming even greater GW superstars. It meant so much me... to have the power to ban anyone I wanted. So I did what I do best to become a moderator: whine and complain. And... it worked. Within a day of finding out and probably hours of pursuading Wilik and then-admin Krbadass, I was made moderator on my 20th birthday along with Gods_Son. Read old thread here.

With our new moderator powers, although mine was only briefly held, we were ruling GotWoot with an iron fist. You see the rules that we have now? Those rules were based on the original rules we had come up with in our ultra super mega secret moderator channel and forum. Before that, GW had a dinky ass piece of crap forum rule structure that nobody cared about. Although right when the new rules were made in effect, not much change occured, but I can definitely see the aftereffects of the rules now. But it doesn't really matter since the abundance of shit posters didn't decrease. Anyway, rules were strictly enforced. Not to take anything away from the other mods, but as the new guys, we were probably the most active mods in a long time.

The mod forums, back then it was called the Moderators Lounge, I don't know if it is still called that, was an interesting place. It really wasn't how a lot of people and I thought it would be like. It wasn't so full of drama and bearaucratic as people expected it to be. But we did talk about certain posters, how fucking awful they were, who would be next in line to promote to moderator status, and of course, admin garbage.

Besides banning whoever you want when necessary, one of the most fun things to do with moderator powers back on the old FuseTalk forums is being able to write notes in these text fields each member had in their profile. Only moderators and admins would be able to see them. The hilarity behind this was the fact that it was pretty much the same as putting on an invisible sticky note on the back of anyone and only a small group of people would read be able to read it. Sort of like an inside joke, but if you guys knew what was going on, what kind of things the mods were saying (not just me, but everyone), and how long and hatred-filled some of the ridicules were on some members' notes, you guys would have a pretty fun time. God I wish I still had a screenshot of this.

But with the stricter rules, came more fun. We decided to come up with several games for you lazy bums to participate in. I don't remember if I was a mod back when I started making game threads like GotWoot Survivor 1 and 2, but I was definitely a mod during IK Threads. I remember this one clearly since I banned about 30 people in a span of several days. But GW Games story is for another post. Haha, good times.

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Forgot to add this,

The day when I was made mod for the first time - back in October 2005.