I second that. Mr. Nicekid76 is one of the reasons I have stuck around. BUT, I have been mod of many a posting board, and I have to tell you... it can change your outlook, responses and demeanor. I rarely take on mod jobs anymore because of it. If I enjoy something, I participate, add (hopefully) something useful and of course lay out a bad pun or joke.
Oh, I've done it too. For over a decade, I was part of a four-person moderation team that moderated four business newsgroups. Yeah, I'm older than dirt. Now perhaps it was because there were four of us, it wasn't a burden. We all kind of took on different moderation duties. I was the "baseball bat" for when MLM and other scam artists came into the groups. That and business professors who never worked a day of their lives in a real business but thought they had something to share. Another moderator was the diplomat who calmly put out flamewars. Another was a brass-tack entrepreneur who handled bootstrap questions. The fourth was a marketing executive who helped me handle marketing questions. He was a long-form advocate and I was a short-form. Soooooo maybe Nicekid76 should assemble a team. I'd be willing to help out.
I always think of my ex-brother in law. Loved cooking, so he spent a ton of money, went to culinary school. Came back, worked in a restaurant for 6 months and quit. Never to return. He said it almost completely ruined his love for cooking. He is a Manager for a construction company now, but I always think of that when people talk about this.
One of my brothers was a chef. Worked at a three-star-Michelin restaurant in Vale, Colorado. He was always and still is a foodie. But he would never go back to being a professional cook again. Too much stress, pressure, and heat as well as swing shift hours. Nothing like what you see on cooking shows. Having said that, EVERYONE loves to come over and eat at his house. Just fabulous food. All he asks is you stay out of the kitchen. You can sit on barstools at the bar that looks into the kitchen, but just don't try to help or offer any cooking advice. He doesn't mind questions but that's about it. And he is fast. Dangerously fast with a knife. Another good reason to not venture into his kitchen.