This is the end case in any autocracy. At some point people stop thinking about what's good for the nation, and only focus on what keeps them in power. A mind set that eventually leads to only the only most narcissistic sociopaths being able to take & keep the crown.
see: Something Awful moderation staff.
Aside from TV Tropes' Fast Eddie, seeing how those jackasses ran a website had me scared from day one of ever being a dickhead when it comes to running my own.
The way I see it, being a website admin or mod means you are just the glorified janitor, repairman, or, if you actually have technical expertise, building contractor who is needed to either keep the house of cards from falling down or are the person responsible for shoring up or adding more cards to the house of cards.
Aside from that, you are just someone with a web connection and an admin panel, that by no means makes you God.
I try to be nice to those on other sites, especially those who do a great job doing the scut work of being the resident tard wrangler and occasionally handyman, but I refuse to sacrifice my dignity and treat the guy with the mod button like I should be giving them my firstborn, they are a glorified janitor after all.
Granted, if they do a damn fine job being a janitor, I'll make sure to compliment their efforts, but when the janitor starts acting like they runs the place by sheer dint of their existence, that's my cue to tell the janitor to shove their head in the dirty mop bucket full of grungy water and stay there until the ability to not drown has long passed.
Something I noticed about Communism and assholes who think being web janitors makes them special is that people on the sides of those fences think that just because they were given the ability to do maintenance work gives them the right to hold that over the heads of the peons, with the implications they'll flounce and leave everyone else to clean up the mess if they aren't getting their balls washed constantly.
My response to commies and people like that is to say they can find another place to give them a mop bucket, I'm not sucking a janitor's dick just because they say I should.