[MrEyes]

You can give mods access to view rep comments by giving them "Can Edit User Reputation Comments" in ACP. However they cannot change the points of the rep comment, which leads me onto.....

I entirely agree with you that the VB permission model needs to be looked at, IMHO the logical split would be 2 primary areas

1) Server administration / Setup / Configuration
These are things like creation of new forums, usergroup settings, scheduler, logs, styles, plugins & products. The types of things you setup once and forget about.

2) Day to day site administration
Of course with different permission levels for mods/super mods - but this is all the day to day stuff like changing rep comments/scores*, user banning, user usergroup assignment, full access to change user profiles, full infraction management etc etc etc

* Who in their right mind would give full ACP access to allow a mod to edit a rep score?

I am the only admin on my site, and while I do trust my mods they are generally not technical enough to be given full access to ACP, so when I am away there is alot of stuff that they cannot do.