User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Do people hate me on this Wiki?/@comment-1992639-20140112131803

I do not know you, but I find that asking if you're hated doesn't help. Voicing frustrations will only polarize the still neutral people against you. People only look up to someone who improves themselves, it makes people reconsider their opinion, while complaining reinforces their negative opinion. You should have worked on the points that prevented you from becoming a moderator, even if you don't agree to them. Then when you are a moderator and people come to respect you, you can carefully suggest change to policy because people listen. That is the mature solution.

Communities differ from eachother and often change over time. Some are conservative, opposing hypothesizing about topics or having an opinion on something as a moderator, while other communities are very liberal and prefer to dream and speak your own mind regardless what role you hold. I find that the only thing that is relevant is if a community brings you enough joy to stay, or if it is so mismatching to how you are yourself that you will only feel like you're talking against a brick wall. If the latter is the case, I often decide to leave and look back after some months. Sometimes some people then left and new ones joined and the community may feel very different.

I did not know you, but this post did makes me do the opposite of sympathizing with you. It's not mature, and maturity and moderating go hand in hand.