We can make a lot of proposals, but whether they are realizable (in any technical, financial or whatever way) or not, is by far out of our mean user's scope. Most of them require a certain amount (more or less) of money and effort to realize, which most of us don't even think about spending ourselves. Moreover, moderator is much more but just a nice title. Has one of us ever tried to stay tuned just with some threads like the http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...hlight=windows one (more than 3,5 thousand posts in 1,5 months)? It would require a team of professional full-time moderators just for one thread. I wouldn't expect too much from the moderators, while most of us wouldn't even spend some time to create a wiki page. And it is even not said, that they are the ones, responsible for technical system maintenance like this. Generally, even if practice often deviates, moderators' job is to stay somewhat "off topic" on a communicative meta level (even in topics like this).
There are. However, moderators do not have access to anything that allows them to modify or configure vBulletin.
I guess it would be rude for me to call it a Shamocracy; I think it's run fairly well, actually. But it usually pretends to be sort of democratic until you notice that huge changes are being made or resisted, and the populace clearly has no real role in what is happening.