[bitshiftfaced]

You're assuming that the current mods are already doing it "remotely well." There are no shortage of cases where people have been banned from a subreddit for ridiculous reasons, myself included (e.g. talking about studies that support safe sleep practices for infants). When Ceddit still worked, it was eye-opening to see how much shadow-censorship was happening, and for the most petty reasons.

The subreddits you mentioned are good examples where domain knowledge is a very desirable trait in a mod. But by and large, it's not necessary for a mod to have deep domain knowledge in order to be able to enforce rules consistently. There's a reason why it's called being a "glorified internet janitor."

[bombcar]

99% of the unpaid jannies job is sweeping up the spam and crap.

It’s the 1% remaining that gets people pissed, and you can NEVER please everyone.