I completely disagree.
Why you have to
obligate the users to see moderator's stuff if they can easily ignore things of the rest of users?
That old figure and concept of the "Powerful Sheriff intouchable" around with a lot of badges distributing "authority", "justice", bans, warnings, etc..., is exactly the figure I would like to get rid completely on my board.
in my board I want to be a normal user to everyone. not the "big boss"
To sent important notices or messages to the users is easy use only 1 account with the name of your board and your logo. It looks very professional. exactly as the account
@XenForo does. I like it. only 1 account is absolutely enough to announce things or sent messages.
I know there are a lot of people who are happy using badges and showing their conditions of moderator, owner, sheriff, etc...to everyone, they love it, others hate it, others simply want to change that concept. (like me)
We are not talking about about personal opinions of personal applications in own forums. we are talking about things that should be optional in Xenforo. (it doesn't hurt anybody)
Make optional this kind of details will improve the quality of the final product. (The software) (Xenforo) that is the important here.