[phil21]

> The tyrannical behaviors are most often found in the former camp where being a moderator is synonymous with “internet power”.

What's old is new again, I suppose!

Similar happened on IRC back in the day. All the big channel wars and drama were over the big popular channels for internet points. I certainly participated in my fair share.

Then you had the small channels of folks who were just pretty chill chatting about whatever random topic of interest.

Might be nostalgia, but I still think the best balance of this was the phpbb/vbulletin era. The amount of "reference material" lost behind the walled gardens is crazy.