The moderators are: mathowie, jessamyn, cortex, pb, vacapinta, restless_nomad, taz, goodnewsfortheinsane, LobsterMitten.
Moderators have a "staff" badge on their profile pages, under their profile picture.
MetaFilter was created by Matt Haughey (
mathowie) in 1999. He was the sole admin of the site until 2005 when Jessamyn West (
jessamyn) started helping keep Ask MetaFilter on track. In March 2007 Josh Millard (
cortex) started helping out around the place.
pb keeps the back end running smoothly and does bugfixes and feature builds. In May 2008
vacapinta became the unofficial "Midnight Mod", checking in a few times during the North American night, and in April 2011 Jeremy Preacher (
restless_nomad) came on to keep an eye on things over the weekend. October 1, 2011 saw the first regular non-US mod when
taz joined the team. In 2012
LobsterMitten and
goodnewsfortheinsane joined the team as "floater" mods.
Now they all watch the flagged posts pile up, delete questionable posts, occasionally post to the sideblog, and settle any disputes that might arise. You can email all the mods at once using
the contact form.
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