Thanks for taking time to write out a detailed response and I agree with a lot of your post.

There are various motives for modding and not everyone is a paid public relations consultant, marketing consultant, political operative, government employee, SEO, or power tripping sociopath looking out for their own interests or interests of their clients and allies.

There are in fact volunteers that have altruistic motives in online discussion forums, but those people largely are being pushed out by the former group. Moderation can be a thankless job for those that have good intentions. Not many recognize that.

What I generally don't appreciate are people that frequently gaslight, lie, project, dodge, shift blame, and are generally evasive while abusing their position of authority that insult my intelligence.

Most mods do not apologize even when they make mistakes. A lot of narcissists are drawn to positions of power and crave it.

Thanks for taking time to write out a detailed response and I agree with a lot of your post.

There are various motives for modding and not everyone is a paid public relations consultant, marketing consultant, political operative, government employee, SEO, or power tripping sociopath looking out for their own interests or interests of their clients and allies.

There are in fact volunteers that have altruistic motives in online discussion forums, but those people largely are being pushed out by the former group. Moderation can be a thankless job for those that have good intentions. Not many recognize that.

What I generally don't appreciate are people that frequently gaslight, lie, project, dodge, shift blame, and are generally evasive while abusing their position of authority. Don't insult my intelligence.

Most mods do not apologize even when they make mistakes. A lot of narcissists are drawn to positions of power and crave it.