Well Jack, we'll just have to agree to disagree. You are putting words into my mouth. I never said a moderator should not contribute. The moderator doesn't make the board, the contributors do.

By your narrow definition, a man could not be a gynecologist. I am not on the beta distribution so I guess you would disqualify me from moderating that forum. Come to think of it, I only posted one UDF, so I guess I wouldn't be on the ballot for that one either. Neither would MCA then qualify, not having posted any UDFs.

While nobody can argue that Shawn is the driving force behind the COM forum, it is not because he is the moderator. It is because he is a contributor. He just volunteered to moderate it because somebody had to.

I think that if you looked closely you would see that the moderators contribute more to the forums they don't moderate.

I doubt you could find anyone more dedicated that NTDOC to fill the vacancy.
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