Janitors

Janitors (also affectionately known as “Jannies”) are the unpaid, yet tenacious, enforcement arm of The Fediverse. Every forum and online social group you encounter typically will have some form of moderation staff to maintain the will of its owners. However, Jannies go above-and-beyond the devotion of the typical moderator, spending vast amounts of their waking lives maintaining “order” on sites like 4chan.

While Janitors post on the same sites as Anons, most of them are by no means part of Anonymous. Rather, they represent a dead-end evolutionary online cul de sac: The final sad fate of unremarkable sociopaths, who clawed their way to the top for these unpaid positions, in order to enforce their wills on the rest of Anon. Many of them are in fact, furries and pedophiles, and will have no second thoughts about using their positions to silence opposing views to their unpopular lifestyles. Nor will they have any qualms about ratting you out to law enforcement, private investigators, foreign intelligence, the Office of Special Affairs, or anyone else for that matter, just for the sake of getting brownie points.

Clean it up, jannie.

If you are running ops on any of the imageboards, or any forum or chat room, jannies will most likely be the primary line of defense you will have to work around.

Their weakness, however, is in their limited ability to deal with actual problems. Simple triangulation tactics are oftentimes enough to distract and incapacitate the feeble-minded janitor. Having one party make a gigantic mess for the jannie to clean up, while you smooth-talk other community members in the background of the chaos, is a historically-proven technique (especially if you time it in off-hours when there is only one or two jannies around).