You should not regard being a mod as some sort of honor. It is a duty to help the site. I reluctantly moderated B&E for a few years then was dismissed, despite keeping B&E clean (Just three days before being dismissed, I had to remove someone's inappropriate comments about some other poster's parents.) I don't know who moderates B&E now, but I was quite active in removing "first post spam" - Averaging more than one / day but not in B&E which is usually not much of a spam target.
BTW Juliette Durham's post in Gen. Science & technology, just now, is a classic case - Has all the characteristic I listed long ago: First post by "person" with two names, never seen before, etc. but I can't delete her post now. With my "rules" I could and did quickly spot most "first post spam" ever time there was one, when I went back to the main sciforums page, looking for new posts.
Many (4 to 6) of these "1st spam post" spam come during the US night time. A mod who lives in Holland, usually killed them before I could, but when he slept late I got them from my base in Brazil. In my best killing interval, just after logged on one AM, I had sent 5 or 6 to their graves in less than 15 minutes, then bumped up "my score" a few more during the day - sometimes removing them in less than 5 minutes of their existence. My spotting rules really worked. One of my rules saved reading the post: Just open the suspected post, glance at the bottom, and if it is a link to site - it is spam - no need to waste time reading it.
I did my duty / paid my dues/ and now have time to be active at physis.org where crap is not allowed but I still post here, as posts of Wellwisher and a few others, give me the opportunity to teach some physics, without appearing to be pedantic. Plus here I can express my concern with AGW and promote the obviously beneficial to all but "big oil" fuel change of switching to sugar cane based alcohol as the fuel for cars needing liquid fuel. Until just a few weeks ago, physics.org would not allow any post on AGW, no matter how well documented its facts were.