Personally, I have no interest in seeing "Moderator" next to somebody's name. If Big Mick (and I name him only because he regularly "outs" himself) or one of the other JCs wants to post, there is no reason why there should be some kind of mental dialog of "is he speaking for himself or just commenting so we all know a JC is watching?" among the others involved in a discussion. In fact, I kinda wish I didn't know the JCs I do know.

BTW, there was a brief mention of a vote...I agree that it's time to decide the issue of guests being allowed to initiate BS threads. This is clearly not the place, and this isn't a democracy anyway, but perhaps Joe could begin a heavily moderated thread, with that the only issue, with only members being allowed to vote, and present the results to Max for his decision.