You must be joking, have you seen the garbage mods have to deal with already?
I think many people would be willing to deal with the chore of moderation in exchange for the opportunity to clandestinely push the agenda of businesses they are invested in by belittling or suppressing criticism. Not that I am suggesting that you, or anyone else is doing that, but if one of you did choose to then it would have a great effect due to how focused the Bitcoin community is on this one single forum.
I personally think that neutrality is an important quality for forum moderation generally, but it is especially important in this situation.
Actually just an aside (I don't even know what this thread is about) theymos clears 2 grand a week just on the advertising slots he sells...
He clears it, and then it goes into the forums reserves, not into his pocket.
There should be greater transparency about this as well. Due to the rising Bitcoin price the forum probably has $1m or more in reserve. This is supposed to be used to create new forum software but there has been no movement on this. Theymos is, after all, just a young kid in college. There's no way he should be entrusted with that kind of money without any transparency. For all we know he's blown it on prostitutes, or it's paying for his own personal expenses. Of course there's no reason to think that he would, but why risk it all on some anonymous 20 year old kid? There should be more accountability.