Full disclosure, I created and modded /r/joker for a while before giving the sub away and demodding myself. I was only ever banned from /r/latestagecapitalism

Full disclosure, I created and modded /r/joker for a while before giving the sub away and demodding myself. I was only ever banned from /r/latestagecapitalism and /r/conservative. I found the contrast funny. Anyway, being a mod is a pain and a pretty thankless job. The people who continue to do it either do it out of a love for the sub or as an ego boost. And reddit is often actively hostile towards any attempt to monetize (like including sponsored links in the sidebar, for instance). So I mostly just bailed on a sub if the mods got too toxic, but I have absolutely nothing against mods on the whole. Without them, reddit would have been even more chaotic than it was. Something like 5% of redditors contribute 99% of the content, and those are the 5% that are leaving.