Hey no one get angry okay? This thread is for the people who appreciate the staff who devote their time for free for us. Not for arguments! 
The staff on these forums are awesome!
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Calm down, and drink some hot coco.BLASPHEMY! ITS 100 PERCENT TRUR, EOTH NO EXAGERATIONS! LYNCH HIM FOR HIS BLASPHEMY!
Mmm this is...*slirp*...yours?
The staff here are just staff. Why would moderating these forums strip a person of their sense of humour?
There's always one...
I wouldn't expect any favours from the staff if I were you mate, and they sure do a lot of favours!
I've been active on a few forums in the past and I've met a lot of forum moderators who've taken their roles very seriously. I've usually found that they can still joke around. I'm not suggesting that any of the moderators don't have a sense of humour. I've seen them having joking around with each other, and other forum members in threads before. I just didn't realise anyone else thought it was something worth mentioning.
I wouldn't expect any favours from them. I know none of them and I see no reason why any of them should be obligated to do me any favours. And as far as I'm concerned the FTB staff are nothing special, in fact I see them as fairly typical forum moderators. They do their job, and I appreciate their work. However I don't feel that they're extraordinary in any way.
They create modpacks, they spend hours to help you, they list EVERY mod and EVERY permission in their packs, they find people like you, they promote the best, they improve the forum, they are the reason we're even talking right now.
This might just be me coming from a super strict forum past, but the ability to derail a thread for a little while before going back on topic is like a breath of wonderful fresh and beautiful air.
Well I've been thinking more specifically about staff activity inside of the forums. They haven't spent hours directly helping me, and they haven't directly (if at all) promoted me in any way. Oh, and they didn't find me either. Yes, they improve the forums. But I would expect no less if any one else was working in their place. Are they the reason we're talking right now? I suspect that their influence on us talking has had only a very small impact. Also I don't know what I can say about them listing mods and permissions for each modpack. I guess in other communities I haven't had any moderators that do that. However there have been moderators who do other things relating to whatever community they've been a part of, possibly not quite as stressful or time consuming, I'll admit.
**EDIT: I've just realised your post said "promoting the best", not "promoting you". Sorry, I misread that. However who do they promote, out of interest? Other than some mod creators.**
I don't really see how that has a bearing on how good they are as forum moderators. Yes, they probably were selected because of their own individual qualities that make them more suited to the job as a forum moderator, but like I said, I don't think that they are anything extraordinary.
Someone voted staff as no not really
Yup it was me. I think "Meh" is actually where I sit but I can't change that vote now. I was quick to make my vote, having only thought "Well I remember that in the past the moderators have handled some situations in one way, whereas I think they could have been handled better in a different way".
Yes it can be a nice breath of fresh air, especially in heated thread, such as any thread that asks something along the lines of "Do you like Gregtech?". But the moderators don't have to be the ones to take things off topic. Other users can do that too, unless the moderators are strict and only allow staff to derail threads even temporarily.
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Yeah, that's exactly why they're awesome. We, the users, can derail threads, but they do step in if a topic goes extremely off topic for an extremely long amount of time.
Is that awesome? I didn't think it was a particularly noteworthy skill. Especially for someone in a position where they can demand that the topic gets back on its original course. Also I think all of the forums I've seen over the years discourage off topic discussions within threads, and I think I've always seen moderators who are able to sway the course of discussion back to in intended topic.
Hehe, Lynch the voice of reason. Oxygen Uranium.BLASPHEMY! ITS 100 PERCENT TRUR, EOTH NO EXAGERATIONS! LYNCH HIM FOR HIS BLASPHEMY!
... I won't delete it. But i have got some things to day i'll say later. Right now i got to go. But check back in a hour or two.