You know what? I think we could use a thread for things like this. I’m sure mods sometimes feel like nobody appreciates them since so many threads about things people disagree with. But, since it probably won’t engender much discussion, a single thread is probably enough.
I know I’ll be adding my own as they come up again. Moderating need not be a thankless job.
Dude, they’re still not going to let you have “charter member.”
Obviously not my intent. I think it would be better for everyone to have mods that feel appreciated. People who like their jobs do them better.
There are lots of message boards out there and while the board itself attracts a great clientele, if it weren’t for the moderators, it would be just another internet mess. There are a lot of behind the scenes things that go on that we don’t see, spam and the like, that remain filtered from our time. So thanks go out to the past, present, and future mods who have been patrolling our borders.
(Bolding mine) Or patrolling our boarders.
Mods here get a lot of flack, much of it undeserved. During “the unpleasantness” last spring, I contributed my share…perhaps more…of that flack. Still, they allow dissent, and even respond to well reasoned complaints. Warnings can and have been rescinded, rules changed, etc. There’s plenty of places on the internet where that doesn’t happen.
Hip hip mods.
I think they do an awesome job.
Agreed. Bravo and thanks to all for a job well done.
I agree. They do a good job.
Of course, I help, in as much as I am very easy to moderate. 
Let me single out GFactor and samclem for excellent work. They are exemplars for moderators everywhere.
My thanks have been expressed. Thanks, BigT.
I generally think the mods here do their jobs very well, and moreover, I think it’s fantastic that there is a part of this board where we can discuss and even debate mod actions. Huzzah, SDMB!
I must say that over the past 10 years I’ve been hanging around here, I’ve seen the level of jerkery, trainwrecks and downright hostility significantly decrease, and I credit the overall mature and effective moderation and administration of this board.
[sub]Your check’s in the mail, bro. Don’t cash it 'til the current stuff dies down. [/sub]
I’ll jump on here and say that I’ve become more appreciative of some of the patience shown here by the mods. Thanks for doing an often thankless job.
I would say that pay-to-post had a lot more to do with driving down trouble-maker traffic than any mod decisions. I for one miss the mods we had back in the day - there seemed to be a lot more human interaction between the mods and posters a few years ago. Everything seems too stuffy these days.
Thay can’t be that good, they let me post here.
Perhaps we can let this thread stay a complementary thread, as the OP intended. Other threads are available to critique mod actions.
Perhaps you mean we need to let this thread stay a complimentary thread and lightingtool can start a complementary thread.
Well, the three Mods/Administrators I know personally are all great fellows. Ditto the several ex-Mods, who survived the experience with little visible scarring. Otherwise, what Fear Itself said. 