@Xenomorph (View Post)
Moderators are picked on private reasons, you cant ask to become one.

Moderators are highlighted green, developers - blueish-gray

P.S use proper grammar -.-

@grandmaster (View Post)
actually, looking at what some moderators do, ...
More like just private reasons...

The only new moderator I've ever seen is me, but i'm the newest moderator and wasn't here when the website was started. I know cracker64 was also made a developer sometime, and jacksonmj too. Lockheedmartin wasn't a moderator when he made some of the first posts on the forums, so he was promoted sometime. The rest I don't know much about.

Moderators don't really retire, but they do leave, see here for a list of them, some don't post on the forums anymore (but are still active on IRC). I think 1 (or 2) original ones aren't mods anymore.

Your name can only be blue/green if you are a moderator/developer. I think each one has their own color, but they are all similar. If you compare the colors of our posts, there are some differences, but it could just be 2: one for mods and one for devs.

Also, they are picked for private reasons, you can't apply to be one. I was promoted because I was knowledgeable with the source and had a good mod, and was helpful. It was really random too, I wasn't even told first. (But if I used IRC then he probably would have said something)