For what it's worth, we've stopped moderating our subreddit for the month of October.<p>Reddit fundamentally cannot figure out the role of moderators - we're either robber barons, or we're useless, or we're actively out to sabotage the company.<p>What we certainly are is unpaid volunteers, so we're kind of done. The reporting feature will allow users to remove posts and comments that blatantly break the rules; let someone else volunteer for awhile.