I get your point Mike, I know some places are much worse, but that is a logical fallacy that just because some place is worse justifies how good your place is.
In my time, I put the high water mark in mods being Flacc, West, and Meister. All former mods now. With Kat being a close runner up.
The low water mark being Zinkwarrior, who honestly often sounds a little crazy, unhinged, and unstable.
One of the things that hurts this place are the "zones" and too many rules. I once had a mod "fix" my post because I highlighted a key phrase in red, though it violated no rule.
You know you have too many rules when after pages of rules, they say: Not all rules can be listed or explained.
Another bad idea: Scoring points against someone yet never telling them or having any way for them to see they have marks against them.