Bit of a niche comparison, but I think this is what has kept the long-running /tg/station13 project (major branch of the open source video game Space Station 13) going. The administrator who owns the servers rarely interacts with the community or his own coders, and basically only maintains completely uncontroversial and mission-critical components of the project (like devops stuff). This of course keeps the drama within the community insulated from the running of the servers themselves.

https://tgstation13.org/