As SlapSpan is currently showing in the forums (since he/she is spamming gibberish threads in the lounge with over 22 threads rights now), trolls can be quite annoying. They can be temporarily detrimental to the site if all of the mods are off the site or asleep at the time. In addition, our wonderful moderators have to deal with a significant amount of crap.
I propose that some (of our mature and trusted) users could be given partial mod powers. Specifically, they would have the abilities to delete posts and storygame comments. So, when somebody is spamming, there would be a significantly higher probability of stopping the problem quickly especially if at least one of these partial mods is active when the others aren't (such as one in a non-American time zone). During calmer periods, the partial mods would simply alleviate the time taken away by deleting cys' crap.
At the very least, this power would be a test to determine if the user can handle the authority properly.