As the shadiness of mixers is slowly being revealed and regulation is beginning their crackdown
Lol, man. Just lol.
Seeing this latest complaint makes me think that moderators shouldn't be allowed to participate in paid signature campaigns. They're already being paid to be here by the forum itself, why allow them to continue abusing conflicts of interest to double dip?
If you think they abuse conflicts of interest, then allowing them to participate in sig campaigns is irrelevant. If they do abuse as you say, they shouldn't be mods in the first place. By the way, everybody's free to do as they please. If some authority is likely to abuse power, it's not the absence of the signature that's going to stop them. A simple bribe can cover it.