There's some real nice folk there too, but you won't find them in the Gear forums for the most part. I fucking hate the Effects forum in particular. It's nothing but a bunch of childish pedants who have probably never played onstage anyhow.
The core group of assholes and management ruin it for normal people.
The strange thing is, the mods are generally pretty conservative whereas the users with the highest reaction scores lean more to left-of-centre. Regardless, political topics of any form are strictly forbidden there, and the warning points I've accumulated throughout the years certainly remind me of this.
I think this is ultimately the fault of the site's owners, not staff. I don't necessarily like the admins' decision making style over there, but since the layoffs during the lockdown, that site has tumbled in usability. This past summer has been pique bad scene.
I don't even remember the name of the site's owners but it didn't take long to piece together that after their buyout and the subsequent lockdown the mod team were gutted by over 50% in one year. I think they're down to far less than that at this point. I've only ever seen posts by 2 admins over the past year, and both share the same first name.
I don't think it pays well but I do think it's technically (?) a job, albeit part-time. I can't imagine it's worth whatever the compensation would be if it is, though. Seems like the core mod team are at this point doing it out of a passion to keep the site going.
Your tireless efforts to keep us celibate are deeply appreciated.