Addendum: anyone who has a concern about another member's contribution should report the member and the mods will look at it. Doing it openly on the forum is unwise.
That's exactly right, the mods have access to all the relevant information about the member concerned as well as knowledge of what has gone on behind the scenes including any communications with the said member.
It has been known for a wannabe mod to be banned for a couple of weeks due to the way they have questioned a member when the mods had already looked at it and found their contributions acceptable.
We keep saying date registered on the site has no relevance to when they become verified and able to post, sometimes there's years between the two but that is only known if their login history is checked.