Karmanaut is one of the few default mods who allows fairly "contentious" comments to stay up. As long as he is top mod of /r/IAmA I don't think that will change.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic
(Some data was lost from DB corruption, but if you add back round numbers, they're right on trend again)
The dramawave of more perceived censorship would actually be somewhat funny.