when you select to allow moderators to enter the forum, i believe it's moderators of that forum. Adding each user individually ensure that they have access
nope, that's not the case. unless you and i have two different versions of ubbt711 and/or ubbt65x. mine is setup as i described and i saved the hassle of having to visit each moderator's settings.
moderators are moderators and they don't have to be moderating the specific forum to be in it.
matter of fact, i had a real world case recently, where i had a forum called 'alcatraz', where people were put in for being 'bad'. i initially allowed the general category 'moderators' access, but that sucked, because they were ganging up on the offender.
so to solve the problem, i removed 'moderators' from access and only allowed a specific group 'alcatraz wardens' (who were moderators btw) to be in there. so even though i didn't allow 'moderators', the group 'alcatraz wardens' overrode it.