Well the necessity for moderation came from neither spam nor flood, it came from one user (beep) who kept posting comics without attribution and harassed artists who left a signature on their work.

There was also that user who kept posting a particularly transphobic/hateful comic strip (Jago), at least it kept getting ratio’d by the community but it didn’t do much to make the place feel welcoming.

Mods were needed to deal with both. And they did, which is good.