Ill let the community decide:

ve hardly ever seen him post much at all in the d2 forum until the past couple days which makes me feel hes only posting in here to make himself look good and become a mod, but i dunno

I dont think so. I think it may have been the 1.10 patch, that rekindled his interest in diablo, which in turn made him post here.
He didnt even know a mod spot was open until i told him.