Well it wouldnt seem that way in this instance would it?
The question was about a standard feature of VBulletin and the reply from you and Dingy was "Bad Coding"

Go and remove one of your mods from the mods group and leave him in the moderators listing and you will see it leaves his name in normal colour, indicting his moderators powers are not active but he is a recognised albeit underpowered member of the moderator team.