thank you for your open words. Of course i noticed that there was a big "seat-changing" in the stuff.
And yes, i have sugesstions:
I also know, that some admins (like St. Dennis) lost their Job as admins becouse of the cut between admins and game masters. In don't know everything about that (and it's none of my business to know all of it) but i think that the ex-admins know what they are doning. Maybe some of them could help you.
For the sanctions: Instead of asking all game masters, just ask three (or five, that depends on many of you are, but at lest 30-50% of the active game masters should be asked). That works very well on some other forums, at least one of them with over 5.000posts per year in two languages (english and german).
For warnings: Like the suggestion of sanctions, but with a lesser cound of game masters who have to lokk at it.
For Sanctions and warnings: Maybe two or three "masters of sanctions" could be called. They an decide about sanctions with two of them and warning one woman alone.
I don't know how it is, but i can be extrem helpfull when not everyone make everything. It could be helpfull to have some people only for the forum and some people that can make everything.
A hierarchy is also on nearly all community that i know very effective. This can be used in cases where some "lower" game masters make a something not the best way, where the higher game masters can override that. Of course that can bring drama between this people but when the "new" game masters start at lower ranks they can learn how things are done here.
And again fro sanctions and warnings: I'm not sure if that works with MyBB_forums, but with SMF you can give the right to read a started tread and it is still invisibile for everyone else (expect special user-grupes of course). So when someone post an Violation Reports he can see it's status. That can be be helpfull becouse the user don't think that she did something wrong and(/or) the stuff didn't read it. I know it, that is really frustrating.
I'm not shure how it is here, but as i see it the Game Masters use the same forum-accounts for their private thinks and the the Game Master stuff. That works on small community, but bring much drama in bigger communitys, especially in role-playing games.
I would say that i could help you as a game master, but A: my english is not the best and B: my last Job as a Freelancer-Server-Admin is about 6 years ago. And i didn't train the skill for freelancer since that…
And C: Someone who get a sanction becouse he cheated (and that is in Fact what Victor sad) souldn't be a Game Master.