Why should you be afraid of them?
At this one site I post at, there are 125,000 members and over 100 mods, and I get along great with most of them, though the top poster at the site, who isn't a member of the staff, constantly is nagging me about my username being too long. He is right, but the site is in it's third version since I became a member, fifth overall. I didn't have a problem with my username with the two previous versions, but the problems with the current version are the result of a switch to a different BB host.