He appeared to be the administrator of the fictional forum, as he was the first one to start a thread and on one occasion threatened to shut down the board after suspecting BroadBandBeatnik of being a Hanso spy. He also discussed the technical aspects of the site. In addition, DSLerator was entrusted with a link to a DJ Dan podcast, and also "hooked up" Rachel Blake on broadbandstories.com with a page to hide one of her video blogs. He later orchestrated a set of clues leading to another Blake video.