last time I checked, being an MVP disqualifies a person from MCC.
The answers role is very old, I don't know if it is still assigned to users. It used to be assigned to active users so they can mark valuable answers if the OP does not mark in time. I can't remember how I got it (that's 5-6 years ago), but I think that
was an automatic process as I never asked for it. Nowadays Microsoft hire contractors to do the answer-marking. Those contractors come and go so they may not accumulate a lot of points during their stay. I don't know any contractor get promoted to
a full time employee even when someone did a good job, not sure why. Sad to see some of them no longer active on the forums.
The moderator role is decided by the forum's owner I think, but sometimes the owner's team disbanded (e.g. Windows Forms) or is unable to evaluate contributions in other languages, so a site administrator can assign moderator permission too, sometimes
for other needs. I am an active user of Chinese MSDN forums, and was assigned moderator permission by the site administrator due to my MVP status. I am also assigned moderator status in Chinese Technet forums by the site administrator due to
frequent spamming at night, with little or no visible contribution to most of the Technet forum users.
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