I personally think there is a conflict of interest whenever you make a popular member into a moderator. But, in most cases, it turns out fine. I think as long as you have one mod that knows a thing or two about music, the rest will take care of the spam. When I was mod, I never had to go to the Lounge. Why? Because the rest of the mods were already there.
I think the admin is out of touch with the boards, but that's all I'm going to say on that. But really, does this affect our boards that much? No not really. The intelligent music discussion is still going to be there (probably getting ignored
). You have to realize that most of the drama happens in the Lounge, and really that's never been that detremental to the site.