net.god
A half-ironic title for the Usenet veterans whose word carried more weight than everyone else's, often because they ran the infrastructure.
The name dates from before the Great Renaming, when every group lived under net.* and a well-known poster could be called a god of that hierarchy. Being nice had little to do with it. A net.god had been around a long time, written a lot and written well, or sat on one of the machines that carried the traffic — ideally all three. Members of the backbone cabal, such as Gene Spafford and Henry Spencer, qualified by default.
The Jargon File notes that the term was often used with a touch of mockery, and that anyone calling themselves a net.god wasn't one. It says a lot about early Usenet: a network with no formal leadership, where reputation was the only currency and whoever ran a news server effectively decided what other people got to read.