2012 Community Moderator Election

Question

The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!

Community moderator elections have three phases:

1. Nomination phase
2. Primary phase
3. Election phase

Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.

Please visit the official election page at

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/election

for more detail, and to participate!

If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged election.

Answer 1

(If this isn't the appropriate place for such discussion, feel free to delete this answer.)

I've been asked by a couple people to nominate myself, and am considering it; but I have reservations:

1. I don't think I have the time to commit to the responsibility of being a moderator.
2. As is evidenced by many of my questions here on Meta, I'm not confident in my own understanding of certain things (namely, scope; but also, the nuances of some of the site mechanics) to be able to become a decision-maker regarding those things.
3. I'm one of 6 total people (and one of only 4 non-moderators) with access to Moderator Tools. If I were elected moderator, I would gain a few more privileges, but those additional privileges wouldn't represent a huge improvement in the overall ability of the community to self-moderate. I would rather see someone else equally qualified, but with lower rep, be elected and gain full moderator privileges. That way, the "pool" of moderation resources increases more.

Perhaps this is all an exercise in navel-gazing. I'll do whatever the WPSE community wants, and am willing to help to the extent I am able to commit. I just wanted to throw these things out for discussion.