And how the hell did I get demoted from master to curate on here?! Over 18,000 posts and been a member since 2005 and I'm a curate?!
Sorry, I can't help with your mod question, but I thought I'd explain this...
Umm, we don't know The admins never gave an explanation, but it happened to basically every account and likley just has to do with these forums closing soon.
New forums will be opening at Bethesda.net soon, and this forum will be left open for awhile as the forums and people slowly migrate over to the new one. Eventually, when all the new forums are up and going, this one will be closed and archived here.
We don't even know when the new forum is opening, but I assume at least the Fallout section will be open before FO4 is released.
You can see Gstaff's post http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1533362-bethesdanet-update-%E2%80%93-username-registration-soon/, but that is outdated, as currently the launch/registration time is unknown.
Anyways, back on topic
It happened in early June. Somebody did something terribly wrong with the software when they added the Fallout 4 forum. They aren't talking about it so we don't know what they did wrong.