SysOps are Monstropedians who have access to technical features that help with maintenance. Those include protecting and deleting pages, blocking other editors, and undoing these actions as well. Monstropedia practice is to restrict this access only to those who have been an active and regular monstropedia contributor for a while, is familiar with and respects Monstropedia policy, and is generally a known and trusted member of the community.
However, any user can behave as if they are a SysOp (provided they do not falsely claim to be one), even if they have not been given the extra administrative functions. Users doing so are more likely to be nominated as full SysOps by members of the community and more likely to be chosen when they are finally nominated. From early on, it has been pointed out that SysOps should never develop into a special subgroup of the community, but should be a part of the community like anyone else only equipped with a few more tools to do some chores that would potentially be harmful if everyone was entrusted with them.
The community looks to SysOps to perform essential housekeeping chores that require the extra access they are entrusted with. Among them are watching the Articles for deletion debates and carrying out the consensus of the community on keeping or deleting these articles, keeping an eye on new and changed articles to swiftly delete obvious vandalism, and meeting user requests for help that require SysOp access. Since SysOps are expected to be experienced members of the community, users seeking help will often turn to a SysOp for advice and information. In general, SysOps acting in this role are neutral. They do not have any direct involvement in the issues they are helping people with.