I guess you guys forgot about Parazitas and for how long he helped other people for nothing. After a long, long time he got section moderator. So, take him as a example because other people will have to wait a while. They also can help like normal users, not needed a rang. With all my respect for monday and SobFox, this is just my oppinion and i do not think 0x_ will give section moderator so easy.
Parazitas is a "super-moderator" for some time now, these names don't say anything as permissions get assigned individually since forever. Admins don't exist (don't get me wrong they actually do) but for ugbase it's more of a "owner?" kind of thing not even my account has full permissions and Parazitas should have enough permissions to act on anything he'd like.
Frankly I think I've been assigning / asking the right people to moderate IF I asked someone.. dont wanna sound cocky but usually I don't listen to recommendations. There are just a few traits you need imo and even then it's a miracle if this person actually has the free time or motiviation to moderate
"a dying medium like forums". about moderators: In the past I've been asking people I think they may fit but didn't get a positive response, that's why it no one ever joined after Parazitas. Oh and I read about monday idk I asked him back then iirc.
Generally you would've been right with your topic but I don't know if we actually need more mods or other rules and definitely a different mindset about mod releases. I hear you I'm inactive, releases idle long time and the forums are generally in a dying state, but at the same time
-after a specific time in life- you have to think about ROI don't get me wrong it's not about profits but we're just keeping it alive as is and ugbase is in the negatives, since forever, since I didn't care and still don't. But this also means I can't invest that much time and as a hobby the community got to spicy and samp boring.
Anyway as we should improve I'll definitely think about it and listen to feedback. I however rather shutdown ugbase than breaking a) "the principles ugbase follows since forever e.g. neutrality, no censoring, no harmful/ill intend, weird pay shit that doesn't get u shit" b) being overly sensitive.