Hiring is something the Graal community really should have kept more discrete.. you could find so many people with "Should I be Admin" in their name or something similar if you looked hard enough. The problem with hiring: People are hired based on popularity. Often the GPs you will find today aren't people who actually helped out the community in the past. The "popular" people of Graal know that it's easy to be hired if they know the right people. This is why many people make a big deal about being hired.
They say being hired is "volunteer work". That is just said because people don't get paid. What admins need to say is that it is a "Privilege" instead. Too many people get their hopes up too high when it comes to hiring.. Hiring should be discrete, where they contact you based on your good works in Graal discretely. They shouldn't hire people based off of them asking or sending in applications. This is basically why people get mad for not being hired. Because many people do get hired just because they want to.
But to answer your post, if I was someone who was hiring moderators to keep my server under control, yes I would only hire the people who have proven that they will obey all rules, and could possibly be trusted. Like someone previously said, you cant trust people on Graal. You never know what they could do. Would you trust the person with multiple ban history? Or would you trust the person who has never been banned and who follows all rules and reports players who break the rules? It's pretty simple. I have nothing against you being a moderator, I just don't see how they could benefit more from having you than someone who has never broken a rule.
-J