New place, new rules — even there would be old audience. I have 26 000 on one FB-group, 14 000 on other and just 9000 on third. I don’t need any moderators there.
My experince is brand new community doesn’t need moderators. It needs content creators, and they don’t need better rights. But sure, communities are different, so is culturelly background of users, so my experiences will apply only on my circles.
But my policy is and will be that better rights shall be given when needed. Not a second earlier.
In generally, and I’m not pointing to you at all, need for moderators comes when admin wants play only with tech and sort of shall abandon community and relies on moderators as content crerators and gate keeper. Such admins actually don’t care rat’s droppings of community, but software comes first 