under "Toolbox" on the right-hand side of the sub

All I see is "Appearance", "Bans", "Edit forum" and "Moderation log"

Edit forum just lets me set the name, title, description and sidebar, but I don't see any other options.

which forum, specifically?

/f/hobchat, which I created so I'd think would be full permissions for me.

I also see the same thing for /f/podcasts too, but I've never tried to add anyone before.

bizarre. maybe it's because this is an old version of postmill or something. i can look into it more tomorrow.

it's just because it's postmill. only admins can add mods.

You gotta contact an admin, only we can do it.

through research i completely did on my own i have determined that only admins can add moderators

It seems odd that anyone can create a new subjstpst but not mod people. Is that a setting that can be changed, or is it core to the software?

you can restrict who's allowed to make forums, which ought to have been admins only from the beginning.