[Ammi]

..maybe after a length of time if their absent from the forum and Admin or someone has contacted them and a fairly sure that they're not coming back to the forum, they could remove the status...but most of our current mods are active..(I think I've only ever seen one mod name that I didn't recognise..)..and the only two mods that are new to the site since I've been here, which were elected by admin have both been good mods, so I think it seem the most effective way to choose them...