Comment by prophesi

For one, it's a lot of text for the myriad of ways you can moderate your server/chat. It's just a paragraph for kicking "a nazi out of the cybersecurity chat."

And two, "In Riot, Admins are shown in the membership list with a golden shield, and Moderators are shown with a silver shield. Other clients use similar metaphors."

If you actually used Matrix, you'd notice in whatever client that you're using that it's actually very easy to see who the mods are.