17K posts, EM resident, and now the EM mod, and nothing ever posted in the EM forum? Yeah, that's good, although the reference to another account is cryptic.
Being a mod is like being chief resident - you don't have to be the best, but you have to be a colleague/peer, which, online, is done by posting, and others knowing you by your posting. Marc Squillante (and that is the user name, so Caesar has no grounds to edit my post on the sly, this time), the original EM mod, I think posted less than 20 times ever - he was an "absentee". Then, DrQuinn, and he was active. Then, sometime, spyderdoc, who posted more than MS, but less than Quinn. DocB came aboard about 7 years ago as mod, and went up the chain, becoming a "super mod", I believe (until reorganization, to whatever they call them now).
From what I've seen, our new mod does "SDN 'staff' professionalism" - specific users post specific questions, and the answers are not specific, but general - which was the prevalent style of mod management in the first decade of the millennium. It's like the audience and the speaker - the users are in the crowd, but the mod is the centerpiece, on the stage. Patrician and plebeian, proletariat and bourgeoisie, &c.
It's actually pretty good that there isn't a core of people overboard on the EM forum (as has happened, in the pasts, on anesthesiology, psych, and surgery boards), so being mod shouldn't be a tough job. I don't expect much at all (based on history) from our new mod, and, as such, I won't be too let down. Then again, I'm the biggest ******* here, but, it is what it is.
I'll see if I get a PM notifying me that I've infracted (again).