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Retired rank would be pointless

Yes, same with Moderators. If they're not active, we get people to take their place who are active.

I say if we do demote them we give them a title that shows that they are an old/legendary player.

I actually don't agree because I quit for about 6 months or a year... Somewhere around there and then I came back recently. I didn't leave to quit just wanted to play so other servers and then come back. So I don't see why we should, they earned it and from what I know it doesn't cause a problem.

A new rank really isn't needed. There is already a rank in place to show a person has been active on the server a long time. It's called Citizen (300 hours and a year of active play, with no long breaks, to achieve).

As far as demotions, one of the requirements for the veteran rank, and I would hope the same for the mod rank, is that they are an active player. If they aren't active anymore, for whatever reason, why would they need the rank?

With veteran it really doesn't matter that much, as a veteran doesn't have many perks over a citizen.
Just drop them to citizen. If they become active again, they could be nominated for veteran if they continue to meet the requirements. If they get pissy about it and leave, they were already inactive so no loss.

For inactive mods, drop them to veteran. Promote a person, that meets the requirements, to fill the void to be able to help people. If they come back to be active again and want to resume the job, promote them to Cmod. If they remain active, they will work back up to full mod. If they don't remain active or get pissy about it and leave (they were inactive already so no loss), you already have someone doing the job.