In my admittedly limited experience, site owners are rarely the most censorious of the staff, being more concerned with growth and seeking to accommodate various user groups. Sometimes people seek to join staff being motivated in part by content they feel should be moderated. Being seen as an active moderator often involves taking on harder cases - the easiest way to resolve them can be to ban the work concerned, or reinterpret existing rules in such a way that it's already removable; this typically leads to removing other work, for consistency's sake.
In my admittedly limited experience, site owners are rarely the most censorious of the staff, being more concerned with growth and seeking to accommodate various user groups. Sometimes people seek to join staff being motivated in part by content they feel should be moderated. Being seen as an active moderator often involves taking on harder cases - the easiest way to resolve them can be to ban the work concerned, or reinterpret existing rules in such a way that it's already removable; this typically leads to removing other work, for consistency's sake.