Since there seems some misunderstanding to what moderators and admins can do, i will spend some time to explain here.
Root Admin - These people can view all forums, and subforums, Visible or invisible. Currently the only root admin is Mur and it is planned to stay that way. They have all the powers as an Admin.
Admin - These people have the power to add/remove people from user forums. They can fix anything regardnig the forum not working and resolve disputes between moderators.
Moderator - These can resolve disputes between members, if they cannot the issue should be forwarded to an Admin. The admin has an overall decision regarding all moderators actions.
A Forum Moderator or admin has no powers in game. They are however expected to have a basic understanding of MD, becuase of this, all moderators past and present have, at one stage of their MD life, been a LHO. A good LHO will have the understanding, tact and more importantly, the time to give to the forum to be a moderator.
This isnt a paid job, no one received monetary compensation, Forum Moderator like LHO is done because it helps the community.
When a moderator is talking on the forum, unless they specifically say they are talking, as a moderator or they are using their moderator powers. Their views and all things they say are not a officially from them as a moderator.
I have removed myself as an admin and currently moved myself to a moderator, and created a new account sys-chewett that will be used for all admin actions. If you need something done that only an admin can do, you need to contact that account. This is because some users were mistaking things i do and say as a player, from being an admin. This should hopefully clarify a bit more that what i am saying, unless i state it, does not come from any additional power.
The issue of me having two accounts will probably come up, as to why i can have two accounts. To be perfectly honest, i could just say "because i can" and that will suffice. But i feel thats a tad rude and hypocritical so i will explain a bit.
Currently i have 4 accounts, Chewett, sys-chewett, Test and Test2. The two test accounts, are used to test various permission settings and such. And Chewett and sys-chewett is to resolve some issues. The reasoning to forbid people from multiple accounts, is to stop vote biasing when mur uses the voting. Having multiple accounts doesnt matter to me in this regards, because if i really feel inclined, i could just edit the database to "fix" something. Mur trusts me that i dont, and therefore multiple accounts, provided they are publicly known about, doesnt affect me.
My freedom to speak on the forums without any power or role attached to me either than Chewett is important, and if people still have issues i might as well resign. The only thing that stops me from doing it now, to gain the freedom, is that currently there isnt one person that knows enough about the administrative side of the forum.