While reading this a constant theme was present, POWER. You keep saying how you fell powerless and other things conveying the same simple concept. Personally if you feel powerless as a mod, you should reconsider. Sure mods get huge amounts of disrespect, but you have the power to deal with these situations as a mod. Just because you don't have the admin tag, physgun player, or ban them, you can still enforce the rules to the same degree. I dealt with similar situations as mod, but even while being yelled at for warning someone and dealing with propspammers I still felt my power was adequate.

Tl;Dr
You don't need admin if you can't handle mod.

While reading this a constant theme was present, POWER. You keep saying how you fell powerless and other things conveying the same simple concept. Personally if you feel powerless as a mod, you should reconsider. Sure mods get huge amounts of disrespect, but you have the power to deal with these situations as a mod. Just because you don't have the admin tag, physgun player, or ban them, you can still enforce the rules to the same degree. I dealt with similar situations as mod, but even while being yelled at for warning someone and dealing with propspammers I still felt my power was adequate. Tl;Dr You don't need admin if you can't handle mod.