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On the social mud I used to "live" on, DragonMud (there was also an unrelated RPG game DragonMud), "wizards" had limited admin privileges and "gods" had unlimited admin privileges. (I was a wizard)

This allowed the mud owner to recruit lots of help -- a small number of gods and maybe a dozen wizards.

As an aside, there was an Eliza-style bot, "Newt", mostly for the fun of the owner having a bot wandering around, but also it responded to HELP commands.

There's a certain kind of person that liked to harass the bot, while us regulars were protective of him. They would eventually get a big surprise when the bot turned out to be a god who kicked them off the mud given sufficient harassment, and sometimes even perma-ban them. This was quite funny but also quite effective.