Any moderation position that can be filled by an unemployed shut it will be filled by an unemployed shut in.

Yiu either have to pay your mods, like hn, or have your mods pay you, like the old BBS boards that reddit and stack overflow replaced.

Problems of the 2010s.

Today you can use an 8b model to flag all problematic posts. The only issue is that all the posts are also by 8b models.

That would've happened regardless. But the alternative --- zero moderation, 100% free speech --- is how you get flamewars and spam like Slashdot and tons of other forums before it suffered from.