[dataengineer56]

These are good thoughts to chew on.

> Other users did vote for them. There are actual elections for diamond mods.

I don't like the idea that I have to be on board with a website's unvetted volunteer moderators in order to use it.

I agree with SO but I don't agree with its power mods. The power mods are constantly at odds with SO's policies. Therefore it's a power mod issue and not mine.

> Do you distrust forum/subreddit/discord moderators as well?

Absolutely! Why should I trust these people? Some subreddit moderators for specific smaller niche subs can be ok, but a lot of questions should be asked of large subreddit moderators.

Who are these people who spend hours a day working for free for a billion dollar company? Why do they do it? Why are they moderating 100+ subreddits? Why do all of their posts automatically go to the top of the Reddit front page even if they get relatively few comments?

Reddit seems extremely easy to astroturf and it's very clear to see during US election periods like we're in at the moment.