moot has always been pretty hands-off when it comes to managing the site; the current list of rules has been more or less the same for the entirety of the existence of 4chan. Some more board-specific issues arise from time to time and they tend to be resolved as they come up. They're almost always addressed by appealing to the existing set of rules or by making changes to the board technology itself; e.g. changing how post numbers are calculated so people aren't overly obsessed with "doubles"[1].
But admins and powerful mods have always been able to fuck with the boards in ways normal users can't, such as embedding auto-playing youtube links in posts or having fun with formatting. They've used this power sparingly in recent years and, despite what certain posters want everybody to believe, it hasn't caused any major controversies. I doubt very much moot is going to have a burning desire to come back and embed a stupid video in a board.
[1] Doubles are post numbers ending in repeating digits like "593987144." People's obsession with "dubs" on the random board /b/ have been met with several solutions, such as hiding the last three number from posters (593987XXX) or altering the generation code to skip doubles entirely (593987143 is followed directly by 593987145)
If you spend any time browsing the archives/ghost boards or the public ban list, seeing what content gets deleted and what people get banned over, I think you'd change your tune.
>admins and powerful mods have always been able to fuck with the boards in ways normal users can't, such as embedding auto-playing youtube links in posts
I remember the day /b/ had the Trollololol song on auto-loop.
But admins and powerful mods have always been able to fuck with the boards in ways normal users can't, such as embedding auto-playing youtube links in posts or having fun with formatting. They've used this power sparingly in recent years and, despite what certain posters want everybody to believe, it hasn't caused any major controversies. I doubt very much moot is going to have a burning desire to come back and embed a stupid video in a board.
[1] Doubles are post numbers ending in repeating digits like "593987144." People's obsession with "dubs" on the random board /b/ have been met with several solutions, such as hiding the last three number from posters (593987XXX) or altering the generation code to skip doubles entirely (593987143 is followed directly by 593987145)