90% of the forums I visit have nice communities, behaving good and super good mods and admins. If there is anything to fear from any direction in those forums is at political or religious threads someone moderating you out of just not understanding your point. I wouldn't in any case give that kind of power to the masses hands. At some forums where I regulate, all the members have post counts around 2000 and all are pretty decent folk with brains in their head, but sometimes there are heated debates especially on threads having something political or religious content. So even the best of us can get caught at out worst moments there. And with Meta in our use, some heavy damage could have been done.