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Don't forget the addiction to power. Yes, there are all kinds of moderators.
I love how the many users are quick to call mods power hungry. Some of these people spent hundreds of hours building up a subreddit and maintaining it and you call them power hungry because they don't want to lose what they worked so passionate for - for free.
@Hovenko wrote that really carefully. If you interpret it literally, it basically says "some moderators are addicted to power."
Which is true. You are also right, most aren't. But some are.
There are many reasons why are people in general returning to reddit. Addiction, not wanting to let past work go, not giving a crap, giving up on things... I just don't like labeling them and pretending there is only one which fits the narrative.