I you want to become a moderator, you need to show to theymos that you know how to report and what to report. By looking at your report history, theymos needs to see this is a serious lad who knows what he is doing and can be trusted to stay neutral and fair in his evaluations. I can trust him to moderate certain parts of the forum.
Moderators have a lot of work on their plate, their work load is huge and I don't think they get paid for the work.
The forum staff gets paid for their work. Theymos talked about this somewhere. If I remember it correctly, it depends on how many reports they handle and how much revenue the forum generates from forum ads in that payment period.
I guess the main reason for this is the fact that there are not many active members and activities in the Croatian section of the forum, and we also don't have a lot of problems with spam.
Yeah, I doubt the admins have to handle many reports from our local board. I remember when the new child boards were created, everyone took the initiative to move their own threads in the correct subs. So we are doing just fine without one. From time to time, someone posts some spam in our sub but we report it and get it taken care of relatively quickly.