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And I would have guessed that its a low pay job with high stress and turnover that attracts the desperate-for-a-jobs, not the crusaders?

Add: there have been lots of whistleblowers about working conditions on Facebook moderation.

A couple of accounts are https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382 and https://www.ft.com/content/afeb56f2-9ba5-4103-890d-91291aea4...

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Some people will seemingly spend every waking hour moderating multiple large subreddits for free. They get something out of it, and it obviously isn't money.

A lot of them are autistic and they enjoy applying their version of "order" to a chaotic system.

The overlap between subreddit moderators and Dungeons & Dragons moderators is probably quite high.

That would imply moving to a volunteer, public system of moderation would be, if anything, more activist and biased in nature than less.

Unless the crusaders are also payed by someone to push their crusade.

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