So at this point PayCoin has been stalled out for how long? Looks like over seven and a half hours. Totally worth $20 a coin . . .
The banning issue sounds like BS; Josh has finally realized that people in the crypto community hate censorship and the bans are actually starting to hurt business.
EDIT: After reading through the NodeBB documentation I've discovered that there is a feature that will promote someone to a moderator. So it sounds like GAW might not be lying; they're just incredibly incompetent.