It's generally been my experience that someone who asks to be a mod craves the power (however minuscule) more than they care about keeping the forum functioning. Null should set up fake mod privileges for people who ask so we can watch them try to lord it over others. To them, it would look like they were locking threads, assigning warning points, etc, but they wouldn't actually change anything for the rest of us. But regular posters would be able to see what they think they did. You can only really study abnormal psychologies in a controlled environment. We should do this for science, ethics of testing on humans be damned.
So the Stanford experiment?
You were a good mod at the time.
