moderators

Noun

moderator (plural moderators)

1. Someone who moderates.
   • Angling was […] a moderator of passions.1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The...
   1. An arbitrator or mediator.
   2. The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
   3. (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
      • The post was eventually removed by the subreddit’s moderators as potentially fake, but not before a screenshot of it went viral on Twitter and dozens of outlets circulated the story with headlines like “Girl Gets Sweet, Fiery Revenge on Ex With ‘Game of Thrones’ Spoilers.” […] Before...2019 October 23, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How Reddit's R/Relationships Subreddit Is Moderated”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2019
2. The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
3. (nuclear physics) A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.

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