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I've moderated a large online community before. It was easy as pie. I'm nonbinary and neurodivergent, so the things people yell at me to my face are twice as bad as anything I ever saw as a mod. And I got to sift through tons of drama and experience a feeling of empowerment at being able to actually fix things instead of just stewing in resentment when I see someone being treated horribly. It was like browsing the internet on easy mode. I went from being Louis Lane, who has to try really hard to solve any given injustice she sees and it's still not a sure thing, to being Superman, who can just punch it.
The only difficult part of the job was dealing with the drama aversion of superior mods in the hierarchy, who couldn't stand the idea of visible conflict existing and wanted me to handle everything without any nuance so that they wouldn't have to read discussions between myself and rule breaking users.
I'd totally join your mod team and help you out, as long as you don't have any drama averse mods.