In a ideal world moderators should not have friends on a forum,they are not going to ban someone who they may have a pint with or whatever no matter what they post.The only way around that would be a pre-arranged banning order so that it looks as if the mod is doing his or her job with `said` friend if you get my drift.Most forums will be like this where mods know pals,i mean would you ban your mates knowing they are out of order i suspect not and forums are rife with this its called double standards and its true whether you like it or not.