That's Greg - don't waste your time.
Once upon a time Dragon was involved and ran the joint alone. As he lost interest Slackmaster took over day-to-day mod functions. Slack was a very active full-time member. He gave a shit and did a good job. He did not however have "Supermod" powers, he still had to request major fixes from Dragon. The first big exodus from HR was Slack (with Emeric) leaving and starting The Recording Project site for many reasons but primarily the difficulty in getting Dragon to respond to issues. All this occurred in 2003.
Saying that assigning mods from the membership is a bad idea is one of the dumbest things I've seen posted. Chater didn't come from the membership and look how that has worked out. A case may be made that the wrong members were chosen to be mods but I don't see it being made here.
lou