This leads into another question of transferring ownership of a forum. Once a forum owner can no longer moderate, can you assign that moderation to another person or would you need to transfer ownership as you suggest above? Can you sell the rights to a forum if you are the creator?
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Transferring ownership is something that is in the works - just not here yet. Once we do have transferring, I suppose you could sell a forum :)
I think in the case of disabling moderation - it would be disabled forever, even if the ownership was transferred. Really at that point all the ownership would allow you to do is set the forum's configuration options and claim beneficiary rewards.
Without the ability to transfer moderation, I'm not sure the forum would retain any intrinsic value, therefore not as valuable. Just a thought. I've seen high-income generating blogs get sold for big bucks... but with all rights and functions attached.