1) While for some of us reading all the threads and new posts in a forum isn't actually anything new, when you become a moderator it takes on a completely different feel - you do it because you feel obliged to. A reason (I'm here, may as well post!), I suspect, for the general spamminess of our moderator cohort - which is OK by me!
2) Yeah! I enjoy my alts and my boneheadedness too much. I've been down the moderator route before and lets just say your alts start to have post counts that rival your own and when they actually start to break the rules and have fights with you, well it's probably time to step down, because the next step is a power trip where you close every second thread and ban everybody whose skin colour is pink, you rascist bastard.
*Events depicted in this post may or may not have been undertaken with the help of Alice, may/may not have taken place in the forums of Wonderland, and may/may not in fact be real.