I have already agreed that some mods are power hungry but to claim that all moderators are is disingenuous.

https://i.imgur.com/qccGA91.jpg

if you think moderation is bad why are you on a moderated HN and not 4chan \b\?

> and the moderator action logs would be public

Blame reddit for not making this feature and not mods. There are 3rd party tools for public modlogs that REDDIT is trying to kill.