>But I also sort of like the "aristocracy" term for mods. I've found roughly 50% of time I hit the front-page my posts are taken down by a mod for ulterior reasons. It can be infuriating. So I think some pushback might be warranted.

However, wouldn't that be on Reddit too? Reddit made the conscious choice to have unpaid non-employee moderators doing the frontline grunt work. Reddit could for instance have paid, trained employee mods with a standard of conduct where there would be consistency in what to expect on a Reddit sub. If some company cheaps out and looks toward getting free labor notwithstanding they're for-profit, it's not really the free labor's fault if they're not good, there's an inconsistent work product, etc as you get what you pay for, so if some company isn't even paying at all, well that's on the company for doing that...