Then you've misheard the story.

If you have examples of other people, you haven't mentioned them. I don't really know what's there to discuss in this thread. Its topic is overblown. This is an amateur community. There's bound to be some power abuse and mistakes made - you haven't mentioned any - but that won't exactly make it go to the dogs. Crashers aren't uncontrollable either, so there's nothing to worry about.