Today I'm grateful for Iwaku's very reasonable staff. It's probably not the usual compliment given to staff people, but I chose the word 'reasonable' over various synonyms of 'good' for two reasons.
First, the site rules, particularly those which deal with adult content, are perhaps the most reasonable set of rules I've ever encountered on a roleplaying forum. Cordoning all adult content off into its own section, or requiring it to be hidden from view of those who don't want to see it in non-Libertine sections, is great. So many forums try to absolutely ban any kind of mature content (always sexual, but often gore as well) and then have to police roleplay content, and that's just foolish. People are going to do that kind of roleplaying no matter what your rules say, so the only reasonable way to deal with it is to allow it to exist but only in specific places. Of those sites I've seen that do have a mature content section, most just have an 18+ area that's age gated that have huge problems with minors sneaking in; Iwaku's teenager smut section is a nice way to try to solve that, and it's something I've never seen in place elsewhere.
Second, the staff members themselves are quite reasonable in their actions based on what I have seen so far. I've experienced plenty of ban-happy moderators on power trips, I've seen the kind that play favorites and protect the worst offenders because they happen to be friends, I've dealt with forum staff who will just straight up ban people who disagree with them about anything, I've been on forums where the mods deal with heated debates and arguments by just banhammering everyone involved, and all sorts of other awful and crazy types. I haven't seen any of that bullshit on Iwaku, and that makes me rather happy. I was involved in one thread where things were getting a bit out of hand, and a staff member just came and warned people to calm it down lest the thread be closed and people possibly get in some trouble, rather than just swooping in and throwing out punishments. Yesterday I posted in the a thread saying why I thought a staff idea for a new section wasn't a good idea, and instead of getting slapped down as would be the norm on some shitty forums I had a civil discussion with a staff member about it.
It's kind of depressing that simple reasonableness is rare enough to stand out as something special in my roleplay forum experiences, but there it is.