How were you appointed? Are you employees ? Are you somehow related ?
Mostly, moderators get appointed because they are willing to spend some of their free time to help the administrator with chores that would otherwise consume all of the time, or get neglected. I don’t know svetz, he(or she) doesn’t know me. I have no idea how he got his appointment. Probably the same as me.
Will accepted my offer to help out.
that’s it.
I have a good track record moderating other forums I use. Free help is hard to find, and a forum with hundreds, or thousands of members and threads is nigh impossible to handle alone. On sites I use, and love, I offer to moderate. Mostly to ban spam bots... ugh those are hard to keep out!
but also to make the forum a safe place for members to feel comfortable asking questions without being berated for stupidity or getting insulted or whatever.
I will look at every reported post, and I harshly deal justice to members that insult other members.
If some question comes up I can answer, I do. If anybody doesn't agree with something I post, I am not bothered by it at all. If something I post is incorrect, I take no offense with anybody pointing it out. I like to learn and will till the day I die.
I follow the forum rules, and hope all members do the same.