<p>After many years of helping our site, especially through extensive edits and brilliant responses, @mbq and @cardinal have been promoted to moderators emeriti.</p>
<p>Although the diamonds no longer appear next to their names, I hope they will continue to participate when they can. They will always be welcome and their voices will for ever carry great weight for me and, I am sure, for many others.  Please join me in congratulating and thanking them for their service.</p>
<p>In the future, though, how can visitors who were not with this site all along discover who the moderators have been?</p>
<h3>Postscript</h3>
<p>After this eulogy was posted, @cardinal requested the opportunity to return to the trenches and has re-acquired the moderator diamond.  Welcome back, Cardinal, as our first resurrected (<em>zombie?</em>) moderator!</p>
