that sweet feeling of power to kick and ban other people (and likely to brag about it to their buddies).
Yes: I wrote about that problem here: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how-... and there is some HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9217628.
I don't really see a way around these problems: Paying people would be too expensive for sites like Reddit, and "volunteers" suffer from adverse selection.
It's definitely what got me in to programming. Vb4ever.
that sweet feeling of power to kick and ban other people (and likely to brag about it to their buddies).