Now the mods think its too big to get hurt so talk to people like !!!!.
Not my experience. The few occasions where I have interacted with the mods they've always been polite. Months goes by when I don't notice their presence. And the few occasions where I do notice mods modifying or deleting posts in a thread, I almost always concur with what happened.
The mods are volunteers though. And human too. If you talk trash to them, you can be pretty sure to be replied in kind. Or get banned altogether.