Moderating a website is hard work. No one likes you for it and whatever thanks or gratitude you get is highly conditional. You're constantly exposed to the dregs of the user base and called on to arbitrate petty grievance after petty grievance. It sucks shit.
I don't envy staff, but I don't pity them either. It could only ever have ended up this way; why are you surprised?
Did you think this would be fun?
