Quoting: DragonRaptorHybrid
in terms of "not saying insanely idiotic things and getting into petty internet arguments," pretty much all of the mods were asked to be mods by Banks because they didn't say stupid things on a regular basis.
Banks also didn't really expand the moderator pool outside of him, Jarvis, and Ryan until late 2019/early 2020, largely because that was the point at which CF had gotten big enough/enough of a mess to require additional moderators. so I would personally nominate the mod team for all of their hard work in keeping this place as a pretty good overall space for hockey discussion without letting it devolve into whatever HFBoards is now. (in particular, F50marco is a pretty smart dude and was one of the first mods that Banks appointed.) I feel a little bad myself about not doing a particular lot of the duties mods are supposed to do, but I've also been sorting through my own personal problems over the last 2 years, so it's been a bit difficult to really get around to doing them, so hats off to the rest of the mods for picking up the slack.
You're completely right, we all forgot about the mods teams.
@BeterChiarelli has been a good help to our season discussion threads, we of course all like the work that Banks, Jarvis, etc put in. F50Marco has some good constructive opinions on the Habs, while I'm not sure what type of mod he is, Flamesfan419 has been a great help to the Gm Game