I moderate a geo sub. I've backed away from it because it is thankless and you see the worst comments all the time. And then comments like this that assign bad faith to any decision you don't like.

I signed up to do it because I didn't want my geo sub to be swamped by spam, trolls and the like, and at the time I was online two or three hours a day.

I do think some subs have terrible mods, and that some larger subs are manipulated and astroturfed by organizations we don't know about by supermods. But give some of the smaller subs some slack.