i knew a moderator and i would like to tell you his story.
He had played on lostcraft multiplayer for a year happily and looked up to all the mods. lostcraft released a free-build server which he joined and built on happily.He then rielised his dream to become a moderator, so he started helping people.the free-build server became e theterradome and theterradome decided to make a new
server.so seeing as he had helped many people they ranked him as a moderator for this server.He built many great things and helped the server in its construction.
The server came online and he was very exited do be a moderator.
while in lostcraft he hod observed all the mods and admins using creative and worldedit for whatever they wanted to build.they did the same on theterrradome free build.And then on the same server that he was a mod on he saw another mod doing the same, making a massive sing over an island then spawning lots of jungle
trees.so he decided to join in.He created a beautiful boat and an island which him and his friends could live on.A while later the admins saw his boat and island and though this was selfish although there were 7 people now living on the island and he was demoted to a trail-mod.His island and boat was destroyed.So he found an npc village and made a small town.
one day while working on the town, when he logged on he for some reason was in creative so he used the command /gm to go back to survival. But because of the lag he was having, nothing happened so he used /gm again and waited.He did this numerous times until the server said "why are you going in and out of creative, you shouldn't be in it".so he explained that he had lag and he was trying to get out of creative.He was put on survival and continued happily building a home and his town.
He loged of a while later and came back to find then he was no longer a trial mod but a regular.later the same day he was told that he was no longer a mod / trial-mod because he was in creative.sadly there was nothing he could do but try to explain that it was lag.The admin didn't believe him.
despite the demotion and everything the admins said that one day he might be able to re-apply for moderator and continue his dream of helping people.To this day he has become and admin on 2 other servers and is still waiting for when the admins want him back as a moderator on the server if they do.