Magmile - so your search semes to show this enormous total of THREE (count em) times in the cobwebby past when the word "kiddo" was used on FT.

They were used WAAAY before Moderators, hence Markie's point it seems.

Your three examples showed use by:

essexjay
Dr. PhP
onefreeman

Hmmm. Wonder which one was the fictional Dr. Php then?