We need actual mods who can work to actually implement this dream of a "pyramid of debate" centered site.

That's not going to happen. The "internet janitor with a proud salary of $0" job will never attract a noticeable amount of normal well-adjusted people for a noticeable amount of time. I think everyone understands who and why ends as mods usually. I don't think there needs to be a push for them to do a less relaxed policing otherwise you are ending with s/fascism example where a mod, whose most intellectual contribution to any discussion is "ok libtard" bans people for "Dragging down discussion on Pyramid Of Debate". In other words you are ending back at reddit with a slightly different color theme.

I agree with your general notion about quality content but magic impartial mods won't appear out of thin air and won't curate it to your standards. The best you can reliably count for is some ex-redditor with reddit mentality. Fortunately magnora gave you a great tool to do it yourself, which is a "block user" link under each comment and post.

This site has been hemorrhaging users the last few months, people are leaving. Why? Because this content is all there is now, schizoposting and bad memes.

I disagree. This is a normal life cycle of a reddit clone: reddit reaches a new peak of retardation and spits out a group of refugees, they try all alternatives they can find (boosting their population for a while), eventually settle on one or return to reddit. I don't think something on saidit affected it.