The best way to moderate is to be apart of the community imo. That's the best way to determine who is being disruptive in a thread, who has a history of being a bad poster, who the good posters are, etc. If you're just swooping into tense, argumentative threads and banning people you run the risk of fucking up the ecosystem. I've seen many threads were a person was banned for allegedly being an asshole when in reality, the person simply had a wildly different opinion from others and was being jumped on. That's why whenever I'm posting in any gay or trans related thread I make it clear I'm just expressing my opinion, and being as diplomatic as possible. If Dragona was still a mod I'd imagine me, Etoilet, and similar posters would have been banned for that stuff.