All the comedy replies are good (DGC's is my favourite), but I'm genuinely curious.

Come on, Brett! You banned somebody in this thread, and you didn't answer my question!

Maybe Brett is schizophrenic, and likes to make up personalities from all over the world.

Each and every one of them had to climb ancient mountains and retrieve legendary weapons. Then they all befriended huge eagles who carried them up to the cloud realm where they all fought eachother until only a select few remained, hardened and ready to rule these forums.

True story.

Is Nick TalonMan? It's confusing when you call each other by your first names... I know Keith is DKII, and Brett is Brett, but that's it.

LAWL

Okay, I might as well try.

It all began at a Mensa meeting. Brett paid them a visit, and handpicked 50 people who he thought could meet the admin criteria. They each had glowing yellow eyes, and spoke in deep, demonic voices.

Each of them was taken to a remote forest, blindfolded, and made to kill a lion with a spoon and a pair of chopsticks (while still blindfolded). Twenty survived. The others were left to rot.

Now, the final test. One by one, the admins would face each other. They had to kill each other, but they could not touch one another, it had to be with the power of their mind and the strength of their gaze. Only six remained, at a stalemate:

DKII
Naznatips
BengaBenga
TalonMan
ssj12
TheSource.

These were the names they were presented with by Brett. They were to never use their real names in public, only when talking to each other.

On using a scanner, Brett discovered that DKII, TalonMan and Naznatips' power levels were over 9000, and made them the three seniormost admins.

ssj12 was removed from his administratorial position after it was discovered that he was wearing glowing yellow contact lenses. However, Brett spared his life, and said that he may be included in the VGC private discussions, but could not wield the full power of administration.

Whew. How was that?

 Sweet, I'm 1/3 of the way to being an admin. Shouldn't be too difficult to make it 1/2.

I would love to join in on the fun, but since you said you actually wanted a serious answer, I'll take one for the team and give you one.

It's a combination of work on the site, having squeaky clean behavior as a mod, participating in staff issues (discussing bans, news articles, etc.), keeping in close contact with the admins. Generally being involved with the rest of the staff.

That's it?

How boring. So they're just promoted mods?

...No? That's not what I said at all.

You said they were mods who were well behaved, took part in discussions, kept in close contact with the admins with the glowing yellow eyes from MENSA who killed a lion with a spoon and chopsticks and can kill with a single glance (no seriously, how were the original admins chosen? Keeping in contact with then-ioi?)

So yes, they're just promoted mods.