User blog:DarthRex/WARNING CRITICAL - Why So Many Chat Mods?

Why are there so many chat mods on this wiki? How many chat mods do we need?

Well, as many of you might know, we achieved something awesome in the past few months, 50 of our users had at least 5 edits (correct me on this statistic if necessary), so I beg the question, why are a third of them chat mods?

Surely if we only have 50 or so active users we would only need 4-6 chat mods, not 17 (as listed on the current listing). Is being a chat mod like a special reward? A pat on the back? If so, why can't you just make an award for extra-ordinary users (who are, quote: "friendly" and in some cases, not even responsible). Why can't the chat mod position be a thing of responsibility and not rank? If you look at a much larger wiki, like the MLP wiki, it has 12 Admins (I don't think they have chat mods, correct me if I am wrong). 12. admins. Isn't that a much more sane number for their amount of users? So I beg the question again, why so many chat mods?