I also made lovely friends, but what I noticed about people generally is They only love you when the going is good any change in that, they turn sour. It is not cool, and I believe this applies to 90% of other moderators too. You see a user flagging a moderator just because the user post is rejected, that is not approach, it is simply wickedness.
I will implore contributors to change their approach and their beliefs toward moderators, we are not there to hate you, we simply follow the rules. If you had done that, your posts would have been all approved.
At the end of the day it comes down to You can never satisfy everyone, not even your shadow
Well you have points but i think utopia needs to have a room of ethics for new mods. If things goes well fine, no one wish to stay when things are bad (only 0.00001 exist), id things goes bad in the sense of post rejection, the mod needs to start understandably the reasons for such action except the post itself is a fraud( still only approach will define it). Some contributors may have learn the bad way from friends, mods can change their mentality see them evolving into a great positive contributor.
Some contributors just won't change, they only want the approval, they forget that mods contributions sometimes get rejected too. They want it all to themselves.
If utopian was to design a system where moderator can be reviewed today.
Contributors that gave positive review on a particular mod when they got approval will still give the moderator negative review when they get rejected.