Not to necro an old thread but...
Idiotic Moderation seems to be a rising trend nowadays. I'm still pissed off about an incident a few months ago in which a had been part of a forum in its infancy. Anyway, so I was one of the most well behaved there, had done some freelancing moderation, and was contributing signatures to the forum. (I'm a hobbyist GFX artist) So another GFX artist shows up. He gets promoted to a new rank created specifically for him (with moderation status) and I'm left to rot. But still I persisted. Finally there was a staff update, and again I was left out. Guess who got promoted to moderator? A guy named Lomarco, who stole my first signature without asking, copied and pasted information from another guys post on another forum, and generally was kind of a jerk. The creators of the site said they selected him because he had the lowest post count, showing he had good moderation talents. WTF? Two weeks later the guy had already lost his password, that's some great moderation talents!!!
I deserved that status, and then they deleted my account in a site update accidentally...
:thumbup: GREAT JOB :thumbup: