Just wanted to know how everyone manage and moderate their forums and what are their conditions,

-do you have any moderators? if so how many?
-how do you keep them on track with the events and updates?
-do you hold a little meeting every often to talk to them about the future updates and plans?

Also another thing that would be interesting to know,
-what is your banning rules? by that I mean what rules have you set up in your forum and what could get someone banned from your forum.:)

We have a 2 man Admin team and I think two S.Mods right now and thats all we have. We post forum announcements in the forum announcements forum and we really don't discuss things about the boards updates on the boards.... either something happens or we discuss it minutes before it happens on msn or something.

I have 2 Admins, 2 SuperMods and 2 Mods working my boards.

I have a private Admin forum in which my Staff can discuss changes to the rules, moderation ideas. Forum enhancements etc. This is very useful as it is important to present a united front to the public and it is not good (in my opinion) to have moderators disagreeing in public about issues which effect the running of the forum. Mostly my team agree with each other but it is important to fully discuss an issue if one or more don't so that they will be "onboard" with the idea.

We don't hold regular meetings but just discuss topics as they arrive.

I have 12 moderators, 2 assistant admins and myself as the head admin. Moderators are in charge of various folders but are "cross-trained" to cover other folders. I have one moderator who is a gatekeeper that reviews every membership application and compares IPs with past trolls, etc.

My assistant admins are in charge of getting regular backups, design work and other tasks as they come up.

I do all the hack installs, all the admin control panel work, cpanel, domain name, etc.

I have a 3000+ member forum that is pretty active, so we keep it closely policed. Hope the foregoing was of interest.

Just wanted to know how everyone manage and moderate their forums and what are their conditions,

-do you have any moderators? if so how many?
-how do you keep them on track with the events and updates?
-do you hold a little meeting every often to talk to them about the future updates and plans?

Also another thing that would be interesting to know,
-what is your banning rules? by that I mean what rules have you set up in your forum and what could get someone banned from your forum.:)
We have no moderators, only super moderators. And admins.
The admins manage the site, the board and the users, and the staff and forums.
The super mods manage the users and the forums and the threads.

I keep track on events by subscribing to them and being involved with my own community.

Yes, we have meetings over IRC from time to time, those who are not there can read the log we post in the staff forum and then comment on it.
A week later the admins post their final say in the discussed matters.

Our banning rules are: no temporary bans, only perm bans.
We ban 1 user per week average, for spam, piracy or misbehaviour.