> I've seen heavy and light handed mods, but in either case, I've only ever seen mods that are thoughtful about the balance they have to strike between the two.

> I've seen heavy and light handed mods, but in either case, I've only ever seen mods that are thoughtful about the balance they have to strike between the two. The heavy-handed moderation isn't typically visible, which is intentional. You'd be surprised how many comments and submissions are silently removed, or how many users are explicitly or "shadow" banned (by automod, not site-wide) for simply posting in a subreddit one of the mods disagrees with. A lot of mods used things like MassTagger to bulk-remove "toxic" users. Someone in /r/subredditcancer created a transparent mod log project, but they were driven off the site by mods and admins.