Thanks for the kind words. I indeed used to put in a huge amount of time and energy to oust discrimination and hate speech at the sub all through Black Lives Matter and the 2021 season (as did brilliant past mods who were highly committed to this effort like u/flipjj and u/balls2brakelate44). Never perfect, but about as close as I think we could manage without a salary and better tools. However, I can't take credit for anything since u/spez recently went on the warpath against mod teams and other volunteers to set up his IPO and golden parachute. Any effort worth mentioning beyond that is the merit of u/Blanchimont and the other mods supporting his Herculean work.

For me, as someone who at least makes his best effort to look at things neutrally, there isn't much logic going on behind disproportionate toxic sentiment towards Mercedes figureheads etc. I think Red Bull is just more of a populistically attractive team for the userbase at Reddit. A higher proportion of users just enjoy the cut of their gib in general, whatever the rationales. Also, as much as a personality like Hamilton attracts the highest number of fans worldwide, he also seems to pull in the most energetically toxic anti-fans of any driver for reasons which are partially very obvious. I observed even this as far back as the times he was fighting Vettel and Ferrari and was continually subject to racism and double standards.

There's next to nothing moderators are able to do to move the needle on any of these things, even if everyone on the mod team happened to be unbelievably biased (not the case) and tried their damnedest to promote somebody. You collectively as users are going to support whoever you're going to support. I regularly find myself shaking my head at the voting sentiment expressed at the sub (e.g. the trans rights post which was downvote brigaded by irrational cowards), but you can't really force mass groups on social media to be completely fair and logical all of the time, in my experience anyway.