SORRY THIS IS A VERY LATE POST! AS YOU CAN SEE THIS POST IS VERY BIG AND TIME CONSUMING SO IT PROBABLY WON'T FIT INTO THE CURRENT DICUSSION!
Thanks Zappy! (if I can call you Zappy Zapchu) Now I can give y'all something to ponder about:
Opinions? yes I have tons! Some good some bad. Most, if not all people do. My opinion of not promoting members? That's a bad decision. Some members might be more efficent than most in doing a good job. Not saying that these mods aren't good, I'm just saying you're missing oppertunities. My suggestion? Well I think you should have mods that heavily mod one forum to keep an eye out for potiental, and once they deem a member qualified, trustworthy, and so on and so forth, then they should tell someone who can promote the member about him or her. And the mod or whoever, should give a valid reason, and if an admin or whoever deems the member qualified and thinks they need the person, then bam mod the member. As for promoting mods? Very good, but don't just promote a mod, follow what I said for promoting members to promote mods.