I think they're doing their best.

I also think they can do better by allowing for things like mod elections.

I also think the site needs features added to help them do better, like actual temp bans, new user / account creation timeouts, anonymized IP bans, etc.

I also think removing the downvotes will make their job easier, meaning they will have more space to do other things better.

I think there is a lot of good conversation that can and should be had here which can be done without shitting on the mods directly, and I think the mods should not only allow that conversation, but support it, because it will ultimately be beneficial to them AND the site.