Pretty irrelavant but I'm curious if donators ever regret the amount they donated like for example, someone donated 100 btc at few dollars per BTC in 2011 but now it's worth a million!!!
Probably, but there's a silver lining; those transactions made back then when bitcoins were just figures in a wallet was the foundation for its growth as a currency, similar to the 10,000
BTC pizzas; which quickened bitcoins' use as a payment option.
OP- the mods do a ton here. The amount of work many of them do here is insane (esp global mods like Hilarious). They deserve every satoshi.
And they are not really financially driven, cause during the early days of the forum, they moderated voluntarily and put in effort to grow the community without any renumeration. This is the case when new forums are starting up, but the fact not all actually take off to become popular means there's no guarantee also.