Good moderation means as little moderation as possible. Fortunately, programmers.stackexchange.com is not haunted by trolls and spammers, so maybe we hardly need any moderators at all; vote for me if you want a mod that hardly ever intervenes. That said, I wouldn't hesidate to use my mod powers if necessary. References: I've been TheDailyWTF moderator and also forum administrator for a long time.