searching the forums for “@mods” only turned up 190 results in 12ish years. So ~1.5 a month doesn’t seem too bad… (obviously that could be due to the fact that people knew that it doesn’t actually do something so they didn’t use it)
Might result = future tense.
ETA: JFYI your search counted threads, not posts. If you tick “show results as messages” it’s almost double that amount.