...and Danny got to it before I did.

Children, pay close attention now: this is a site where you can come and go as you wish. The people who put this site up have the authority here; just as they put it up, they can govern it however they see fit, and they can take it down if they want. In the meantime, if they want to name a particular poster ' moderator,' they can do that. It has nothing to do specifically with the time spent on the boards, nor male/female, American/non-American, or anything else. They find people they think would make good moderators. You honestly think you guys are more qualified to say who is and is not upholding the administration' s standards??

Why are you all not moderators? I think you can look at the whining in this post and figure that out for yourselves. If you handle yourselves with maturity and contribute something meaningful to the boards, maybe one day they' ll need more moderators, and your name will come up. Maybe it won' t. Seriously, who cares?

And please, stop using so many bleedin' emoticons - they' re giving me a headache. You are not laughing out loud, nor rolling on the ground laughing, nor laughing your *** off nearly as often as your posts seem to convey.