I think it might help the board, if the different groups of the board (IE. Admins, Mods, VIP's, ETC...) where to have their own colour, say Admin = Red, Supermod = Royal Blue etc, so that members could tell which members where staff, which were VIP's and so on.
I also think it might make normal members upgrade to VIP if they could see there were already members....
Just my "2 cents"