Over the course of my life on the internet, I've come to have the wonderful opportunity of moderating on several fora and in chats, which I feel has added greatly to my perception of the world.

Unfortunately it is the most time-consuming of my hobbies, which, coupled with that it simply doesn't pay well (not at all, to that matter), I've had to resign from nearly all my moderating positions over time, so only one of the following mentions is current. All of them do, however, hold a special place in my heart.

Note: I've moderated several more places than those listed below in my lifetime, however, these were locations of my own design, and thus I was in charge by default.

A few years ago, for a few months, I had an o:line on the DarkMyst network. It was based mainly on my loyality to the network even when several people I chatted with chose to leave over a disagreement with the network administrator, as well as my helpfulness towards IRC or network newcomers.

I mainly used this o:line to /kill ghosted nicknames that were not registered, and, realising that I wasn't really doing anything useful with the o:line, asked for it to be removed soon after getting it granted.

Recently, this o:line has been given to me again, mostly in conjunction with my having asked to re-establish it to have a better grip on the Send Pokemon IRC channel(s). I've earned my right to keep it primarily by being a driving force in the Darkmyst User Experience team.

Most of my moderator knowledge comes from The Abyss, though it in itself has an extensive history:

ravenblack.suddenlaunch.com

I was given moderator access mainly due to having a high post count at the time the site owner decided to instate some moderation.

Initially, I was only a moderator of the General forum of the board - something of a probation time, which was no doubt a good idea given that this was my first moderator position on a forum.

Fairly soon, I was granted global moderator status, and was the only moderator of the forum for a very long time, until real life began to substantially chip into the time I had available and a backup became necessary.

In a retrospectively amusing twist of fate, when polling a better name for the community other than 'the Ravenblack community at suddenlaunch', my submission ('The Abyss') won the poll.

www.abyss-uk.com/phpBB2

After the suddenlaunch hosting began to decreasingly meet our needs, the owner bought a domain for the community and installed phpBB2 on the site.

I remained global moderator.

www.abyss-uk.com/city

The owner of The Abyss created a webgame of his own which attracted a different audience, and the original phpBB2 was split into two communities (that shared their 'users' table for convenience). The owner mostly migrated over to 'The Abyss City', and thus the original 'The Abyss' was left without an administrator. This was the reason for my acquisition of administrator status.

Later, I was given FTP and database access to both communities, both so I had the ability to quick-fix bugs in the game if it ever became necessary, such as a last minute change by the actual site owner inducing an error; and for ease of combatting spambots by finding their similarities with an SQL query rather than manually paging through their profiles

'The Abyss City' now runs on phpBB3 and their user base has finally been detached from 'The Abyss', which still runs on phpBB2.

Note: 'The Abyss' (not 'The Abyss City') is the only community I ever left out of raw spite, due to the work I was putting into it despite its dying right until the end and getting nothing but sass from a single-forum moderator that the original owner instated.

I acquired fame in the Ravenblack game due to my status as a global moderator on The Abyss, and was offered a moderating position in the Ravenblack's City Yahoo!Group when it was created, which I cherished for the few months I held it, but was one of the first moderating positions ever that I had to give up on due to time constraints.

I was given administrator access to the Die Nachthexen forum so I could help them with phpBB2 permissions and they were never revoked (except once, early during my time there, in light of a misunderstanding, by another co-admin who felt his wife had been insulted by a post I made).

In 2008, I was offered a moderating position in the facebook application 'Send Pokemon'. Moderation went from a powerless mention of appreciation on the about page of the application (as Neike Taika-Tessaro, my facebook name) alongside one other person (TK Campo), to trying to keep the peace in meebo-based chatrooms without power, to having the power to ban people from the meebo chatrooms.

Unfortunately the whole thing was more of a waste of my time than anything else, since moderator power was always heavily limited and despite all attempts from the side of the (later quite sizable) crew of moderators to yank the in-game chats permanently to IRC, this never happened. (To be specific, it happened for a short duration, only to be reverted without notice to the moderator team.)

I left on the 30th of September 2008 due to disputes with the developer.