So much so that a simple web forum apparently needs almost as many (mentally ill) moderators as there are actual users on the site.
Tangency. Misc. Off Topic. The Off Topic section is always what causes the drama on a discussion forum, always. It attracts people with no interest in the topic of the site, and becomes larger than the rest combined, and arguments ensue, and rules must be made, and rules must be policed, and then rules argued over, and so on. Which means new mods.
And some of the new mods will be people who were enthusiastic participants in that off topic section, and who themselves have no interest in the topic of the site, so that if you suggest simply binning the section, they defend it hysterically. And the owners of the site see the viewcounts and get terrified of losing that, even though the people in the off topic section never buy anything.
As the off topic grows to absorb the entire site, people actually interested in the topic wander in, look around, and then leave. And viewcounts to the site decline, so that any suggestion of binning off topic is more hysterically reacted to. "But we're already declining!"
And so it goes on.