@By137 My experience being a mod (way back when), was mostly focused on the few things that only mods can do. Like special tags on meta, cleaning up tags, editing things like the site FAQ, etc.

Honestly the most irritating part of that section of the job is that it's hard to "get consensus", since you sortof just "do" things in those areas by fiat.

@jkerian seconded. especially when there isn't enough interest or participation, "consensus" often just means the opinions of several proactive users