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>>buro9+(OP)
> as a forum moderator you are known, and you are a target

I want to emphasize just how true this is, in case anyone thinks this is hyperbole.

I managed a pissant VBulletin forum, and moderated a pretty small subreddit. The former got me woken up at 2, 3, 4am with phone calls because someone got banned and was upset about it. The latter got me death threats from someone who lived in my neighborhood, knew approximately where I lived, and knew my full name. (Would they have gone beyond the tough-guy-words-online stage? Who knows. I didn't bother waiting to find out, and resigned as moderator immediately and publicly.)

>>pavel_+06
100%

I used to run a moderately sized forum for a few years. Death threats, legal threats, had faeces mailed to my house, someone found out where I worked and started making harrasing calls/turning up to the office.

I don't run a forum no more. For what I feel are obvious reasons.

>>thesha+qu1
I, too, can confirm all this. Way back in the day, I hosted a largish forum and moderated it. It grew to be a pain to moderate, and it became costly to run as well, in short, it was no longer fun like it was initially, and I walked away from it.