As an online moderator I’m biased, but I’d say usually allies with occasional hard adversaries. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like power, but ultimately even knowing that it’s your responsibility as a moderator to enforce the community will, keep out the riff-raf, and ban toxic elements. I think most mods understand this, but there are a notable handful that turn toxic and turn the communities into a personal playground, and those types of people need to be kept as far away from any sort of power as possible.
As an online moderator I’m biased, but I’d say usually allies with occasional hard adversaries. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like power, but ultimately even knowing that it’s your responsibility as a moderator to enforce the community will, keep out the riff-raf, and ban toxic elements. I think most mods understand this, but there are a notable handful that turn toxic and turn the communities into a personal playground, and those types of people need to be kept as far away from any sort of power as possible.