Jagex Moderator

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From left to right, back:
Mods Kieren, Sween, Mat K, Archie, Ghost, Jed, Stone, and Meadows (wearing a mask of West).
From left to right, middle:
Mods Ash, Wolf, Ed, and Roq.
From left to right, front:
Mods Ry, Ayiza, and Curse, with John C laying on the floor.

Jagex Moderators, also known as Staff Moderators, Jagex Mods, JMods, or admins, are employees working for Jagex Ltd. Jagex Moderator accounts are only used for work purposes such as play-testing, debugging, and dealing with in-game situations.

Jagex Moderators also have access to certain tools to aid in community events or quality assurance that players do not have access to, such as the rotten potato, egg, cabbage, carrot, and strawberry. For security, employees can only login to a Jagex Moderator account while connected to a designated server. A selection of Moderators often appear on the weekly Old School RuneScape live stream where they discuss recent events, answer player-submitted questions, and show off upcoming updates.

Jagex Moderator accounts will always have a gold crown () beside their name when talking in public and private game chat and a gold background when posting on the forums. Jagex Moderator usernames will always begin with "Mod" with the exception of Paul, Ian, and Andrew, the creators of RuneScape. Additionally, Jagex has also made it so that players' names cannot begin or have the word 'Mod' in their name to prevent confusion and potential scamming among players (i.e. Rule 5, which is Jagex staff impersonation).

Team composition

Mod West explained some of the OSRS team's design process in a comment as followed:

“	We have 3 scrum teams: The Wardens, The Unknown and The Operators. And also 2 ‘resource’ teams, Grafix (which consists of the 4 artists) and CM and then management above it all. We also get help from the audio team when we need music and sound FX. We have 1 scrum (Wardens) alongside CM and Grafix who work on the big update of that period, currently that’s SOTE, before it was Kebos. The Operators handle weekly updates, so that’s QoL and of late lots of PvP updates. Then the Unknown handle medium sized updates with a current focus on the opening game experience, in an effort to minimise new players dropping out of the game. People move about scrums as projects change and not all recent updates fit into the system perfectly as this set up has been evolving over the past year.	”
	— Mod West on Reddit

Old School RuneScape Jagex Moderators

Name	Image	Title	Official Twitter account
Mod Acorn		Community Manager	@JagexAcorn
Mod Archie		Video Producer	@JagexArchie
Mod Ash		Principal Content Developer	@JagexAsh
Mod Bonsai		Executive Producer	N/A
Mod Bruno		Junior QA Analyst	@JagexBruno
Mod Curse		QA Analyst	@JagexCurse
Mod Ed		Content Developer	@JagexEd
Mod Fed		QA Manager	N/A
Mod Flippy		Junior Content Developer	@JagexFlippy
Mod Gambit		Community Manager	@JagexGambit
Mod Gee		Junior Character Artist	@JagexGee
Mod Ghost		Senior Artist	@Jagex_Ghost
Mod Husky		Junior Content Developer	@JagexHusky
Mod John C		Product Manager	@JagexJohnC
Mod Kieren		Lead Content Developer	@JagexKieren
Mod Kristy		QA Analyst	N/A
Mod Lenny		Junior Content Developer	@JagexLenny
Mod Lottie		Senior Product Analyst	@JagexLottie
Mod Nasty		Junior Product Analyst	@JagexNasty
Mod Oasis		Junior Content Developer	@JagexOasis
Mod Roq		Upload Manager	@JagexRoq
Mod Ry		Artist	@JagexRy
Mod Sween		Senior Community Manager	@JagexSween
Mod Tide		Junior Content Developer	@JagexTide
Mod Weath		Anti Cheating Specialist	@JagexWeath
Mod West		Artist	@JagexWest

Former Jagex Moderators

Name	Image	Title	Reason	Twitter account
Mod Alfred		Artist	Resigned	@AlfrdRS
Mod Ayiza		Community Manager	Resigned	@AyizaTV
Mod Delta		Content Developer	Resigned	@DeltaOSRS
Ian Gower		Game Engine Developer	Resigned	@MrIanGower
Mod Jed		Content Developer	Dismissed from employment	@JagexJed
Mod Krista		Content Developer	Returned to micro-transaction team for RuneScape 3	@JagexKrista
Mod Day		Junior QA Analyst	Summer internship completed	@O_Frabjous__Day
Mod Mat K		Senior Product Manager	Resigned	@RealMatK
Mod Maz		Content Developer	Resigned	@SquirrelledMaz
Mod Merchant		Community Manager	Resigned	@coL_Merchant
Mod Munro		Junior Content Developer	Resigned	@JagexMunro
Mod Reach		Content Developer	Dismissed from employment	@TheMadDan
Mod Ronan		Senior Community Manager	Moved to Social Media & Video Marketing Manager for Jagex on 9 August 2017, then resigned on 16 March 2018.	@MLGudi
Mod Stone		Product Marketing Manager	Resigned	@Stone_OSRS
Mod TomH		Lead QA Analyst	Resigned	@tshostler
Mod Wolf		QA Analyst	Resigned	@Jay_Wilton

Changes

Date	Changes
13 October 2014 (update)	Old School sees the addition of Ian Gower and Mod Archie. Ian, not to be confused with Mod Ian, joins as a game engine developer and Mod Archie joins as the video journalist.

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