I touched on this in the pundits thread, to me it just seems a bit confusing why you need to be a pundit first, before you can be a moderator. Take me for instance, (and no im not putting myself up for a moderator, far too busy with my own sites for that) But, ive been global moderating for years and seem to do a good job to keep sites in order. but my skill as a coder are very limited (to non existent)so i could never be a pundit, so even if i wanted to, could never be a moderator. i just think see more that you could be losing the chance to have really good experienced moderators simply because they arent coders so could never be pundits to then be moderators. (if any of that made sense)