If you've never moderated an online space before the secret is that people will never see the 99.999% of ways in which you agree with them and instead will drive themselves into a deranged frenzy over the small ideological gaps, or even honest human error, and they will hate you for it. It is not thankless, it is frankly destructive to the self in today's world to try to make it a better place in this sort of way. Everybody loses
