this is my take on some of it here and elsewhere (not 4chan tho, thanks for the background) - it was a response to a question about why aren't mods here replaced etc

There is absolutely no transparency so your questions can't really be answered definitively. That is in part because whatever is told to us by our "handlers" (mods) is often contradicted by others at the same level, and is generally a tissue of lies anyway.

Think about it - have you ever heard of a tech wiz entrepreneur who can code and build a forum website, who wants to supposedly take on Reddit, but can't maintain a simple search engine? And doesn't even have one contact in his milleau who can? of course not. The humble search bar is on the most basic of websites, and every complicated website as well. It is like saying you can build a skyscraper but don't know how to screw in any light bulbs, it is that simple. It is all a lie starting from the top down. What's the motive? To gather the information while crippling the access - to maim and humiliate the effort without totally killing it because it is the best easy source of finding out where the bugs and loose ends are in your system. We act like street informants here, bringing all of our interesting finds directly to those who believe they are the social controllers - much higher than mods. We get the small payoff of talking to a few like minded souls, and of hope that incremental awareness spreads. We get a small social payoff in "points" whoopee. For me, I like dosing them with their own medicine, putting my message into their essentially frail systems.

The handler mods are on a need to know basis, which means they don't know much of anything, except they are conditioned to view us as silly scum conspiracy nuts they are superior to by one caste, and get some experience in their field and maybe some lifeline $ or payoff thrown at them if they keep it quiet - especialy from one another. As it is down here an atmosphere of fear and distrust, so it is above among the peon mods who are themselves handled- they mostly don't trust each other and will be careful about comparing notes. Some of the naive ones get pumped with fake free speech ideology which motivates and blinds them for a bit, while a caste or two above their heads their .com cult leader and the rest of Silicon Valley is having dirty butt sex on the down-low regularly with the big eye spy government on a bed of knives and money.

Your question suggests you still think this place operates fairly or even normally somewhere above you because it is supposed to be for a good purpose. Stop giving your trust away for free srayzie, it is valuable and should be protected like a mother.