Don't let idiots be chat mods Tams and moogs are good choices. I believe our only valid option is to clone them.

I don't think an ideal quality for a chat moderator is to be emotionally volatile and/or possibly whiney. I can't think of a better way to ruin chat. It would be like putting a far leftist or rightist in charge of a bunch of radicals that are already all worked up and ready to pounce.

How about we add a report abuse function directly into the chat system and assign someone the job of sifting through the submissions and coming up with their own system of disciplining people? (Discipline could be warning or banning or kicking or anything....up to the discretion of the person put charge and obviously following a few basic guidelines)

And, artchic, if you were to be considered for a future mod position in chat, there would need to be a book 5 inches thick to teach you how to moderate in an acceptable way. Along with that book, there would need to be a test over the books entirety given to you in order to be absolutely certain that each situation is able to be best handled. The requirements being that only those who receive a 95% or above are able to be moderators. Some people are obvious candidates but others need to be tested.