At the very least I'd much rather this whole community get deleted to kind of force the users to move on rather than giving him this weird unearned power...

Well, frankly, that's retarded.

I'm convinced he barely even browses this community even a little bit...

Sadly, seems correct.

...he seems to be completely ignorant of the gore spam now popping up constantly...

He's not ignorant; he's the one removing most of it...eventually. He knows what's out there, he just wants to pretend he has everything under control, because he's like a giga-autist or something.

Then again, he seems to mysteriously be able to find people he doesn't like within five seconds and bans them no problem.

Again, he does all of his modding whenever he's around; he'll take out the users he doesn't like, as well as the actual bad faith trolls at the same time.

That's one thing I will continue to defend Dom on; the people who say he mods regulars more or faster than he does the trolls...that's just false. After significant delay, he'll get on and do both at the same time.