I'm very interested to know more about why you believe we need more mods?

I can only speak for 12 hours of the day, but in the 12 hours I'm up there's nowhere near enough mod work to justify an additional moderator (not since Sam came on board anyway).

I do agree that we have some very inactive mods (I can see a lot more data than perhaps regular users can figure out), but considering:

- I still work a 9 hour day and my work day and my billable time hasn't suffered
- I still answer questions when I see fit (there are fewer questions that I *want* to answer, but that's another story)
- I have OCD that when I see a red number show that indicates a flag has been placed, I must must must must get that number to 0 before doing *anything* else
- Really, our workload as moderators pales in insignificance compared the the number of flags on stack overflow, super user and programmers.se. 

So, I'm not quite sure where the problem is. OK so we can be rude to people, but that's not just a moderator thing. And it's not just Chopper3 either - I've mad my moments where I've just gotten fed up (hell, I've even had some mod-flags on my own moderator actions!!), but we also see this behaviour from non-mods.

Additionally, in the last month, more than half of the moderators have answered 20+ questions.

So, really, at least in my timezone (which is GMT-11) I'm just not seeing a problem that needs fixing with more mods.