Quick note: it has never been the [i]modus operandi[/i] of the Guild mods to be pro-active or "visible" in the way that [@Odin] means. The staff is around to clean up the mess and move threads when people ask us. Users are expected to handle issues themselves if they don't feel like involving a moderator, because we won't look for it otherwise. If the moderators seem like they're resting on their laurels instead of changing anything or actively engaging with the community it's because that's not part of their responsibilities. Never has been, probably never will be. They're not here to promote activity. Mahz provides a service and we're simply the extension of that. If users don't make use of that "feature", that's up to them. I don't want the moderators to loom over everyone and inject themselves into [s]the community[/s] specific and minor sub-sections of the community if they don't feel like it. In fact, I prefer my moderators to be as unobtrusive as possible -- there when you need them, but otherwise out of your way.

And while we're discussing this big list of [s]issues[/s] points of improvement, some of which I agree with, others I think are dubious and yet others I think aren't significant at all, the vast majority of the Guild users simply trundle along, writing their RPs in quiet content. They don't need more (or more visible) moderators. In fact, they don't need the existing moderators at all. That's an important perspective that needs to be remembered.