I haven't noticed a difference in mod treatment, though I don't interact with them a whole lot. With players, definately. A buddy of mine plays. He's a good player, but is a private after losing 600+ points trying to claim a single victory in Assdoodle. He has yet to win one. He gets reamed and foed by other players on a pretty regular basis.
I don't talk smack, but apparently it's not cool to give advice or suggestions, either. One of the few times I do, I get hit with some huge blow-back. In a 6-man esc game, this happened:
Master Fenrir: [Corporal 1st Class], why are you hitting 3-stacks in an escalating game?
[Corporal 1st Class]: Because there were no 1's beside me and, as you point out on my wall, cards are important. I also don't see where you think that I'm trying for a bonus... if I were, I'd own [that bonus] right now.
[Corporal 1st Class]: Maybe if you had left a 1 beside me for me to hit, then I wouldn't have taken one of your 3 stacks for a card.
[Corporal 1st Class]: Now how about you stop trying to tell me how to play the game, since chances are good I've been playing it for at least twice as long as you have, if not several times.
Master Fenrir: If you didn't have a 1, then I understand. I apologize. However, you advanced 1 just now instead of 0. And you joined 2 weeks ago...twice as long?
[Corporal 1st Class]: So what if I want my territories to be less attractive for taking cards than others?
[Corporal 1st Class]: And if you're really asking that last question based on how long ago I joined this site, then it's clear to me that I've been playing this game for dozens times longer than you.
[Corporal 1st Class]: In case you haven't heard of it, the site is based on a game called Risk. It's been around for a few decades or so.
[Corporal 1st Class]: And is a game that I've played since I was a kid, more than 15 years ago.
[Corporal 1st Class]: The site isn't that much different from the board game... especially on a map like this.
[Corporal 1st Class]: And it's very easy to adapt strategies from the board game to the site, especially when I've been playing dozens of other strategy games throughout my life.
[Corporal 1st Class]: Not to mention this game on other sites as well.
[Corporal 1st Class]: So yeah, I think I can handle myself well enough, thanks.
[Corporal 1st Class]: I love how everyone around here automatically assumes you've never heard of Risk or played it before in your life before you log onto the site.
[Corporal 1st Class]: And especially love how a bunch of the higher ranked players of the site are so arrogant in thinking that they're better than everyone else at the game
[Corporal 1st Class]: If I keep gaining points like I have been, then I'll be passing you in score right around the same time I hit lieutenant... around 40 completed games; not 171.
[Corporal 1st Class]: ...... and I love how you bitch about me advancing a 1 to have a 2 stack when the two spots you have sitting right next to me are a 4 and a 7 LOL [I forted forward buried armies]
Corporal 1st Class: My apologies that I'm not making it easy for you to win the game

The moral of the story: Ask a lower-ranked player why they're doing something you consider a tad foolish, and essentially get called a 12-year-old, arrogant, know-it-all bitch.
I don't plan on doing it again. Who knows what inferiority complex lurks just behind the door...