A Global Moderator is a person whose job it is to see that users don't break the forum rules to much and see to it that the overall atmosphere of the forums is such that the vast majority of users get a positive experience from interacting within the forums. A moderator can, as the name implies, moderate all posts by other users, including editing, deletion, merging, splitting topics and moving them around- all usually done for keeping the forums tidy and preventing such things as flaming and flooding taking place. With such abilities come responsibilities, and usually a moderator is a fairly intelligent person, who can stay objective and judge fairly most of the time, and can reason with many different types of people in order to avoid unpleasant situations (not to mention the lack of desire to abuse the said powers given.) A user who eventually becomes the moderator also doesn't usually ask to become one, but is rather asked by the current administrator of the forums (and that be CraigStern).
