Moderators are just members with two hats, sadly they switch them to suit and that is a lot of trouble on the site, the sooner all problems are addressed the better.
When I joined the site the same problems were going on and nothing is ever done about it, one thing you have to respect The Webmaster for is that he sticks by his admin team right or wrong sadly this is one of the reasons (not the only one) that some members behave the way they do or simply leave.
Yes there will always be Pigeon Basics but until all the problems are addressed you will have 10,000 members joining but just the same old churn and arguments till you root out the true problems, sadly I cannot see this happening :-/
The minute you post facts then they are shelved and never dealt with and it looks like it never will be