Naw its simpler than that.
You come up with this brilliant idea for a forum, really push to get it, convince the Forum admin that people are realy interested in it. Then despite the Forum Administrator misgiving that anybody is all that interested, he says all right smart guys you got your forum, and since it was your bright idea...POOF you now have magical moderator powers that come with out a manual.
Why me, it was Tim's idea first!!!!