@Gilles The first Japanese election had to wait 134 hours (5 and half days) for the first nomination. (I looked it up and that's the record.) Since we had the same number of nominees as spots, we had to cancel it and start over.

I think the most useful thing anyone can do on here is give good answers to questions. With the ability to write good answers, and do basic review as a non-mod, I wonder how being a moderator would actually give me a way to help the site and its users.

Like @Gilles said, if Emacs had more low quality questions and answers, and argumentative users, I think more people would be drawn to being a mod.

@JordonBiondo Oh. Good idea. We'll just merge you all with Vi/Vim. ;-)

The good news is that being a moderator here is pretty much identical to being a high-reputation user. Without many flags, there's not much burden.

People argued for a "text editors" SE site, can you imagine the chaos?

@JordonBiondo ye gods. that would be like a constant flame war

I imagine, in such a world, that the Emacsers and Vimmers would have at last joined forces, bound by a common disgust of sublime and atom users, to root out all traces of the lesser editors

:D

Someone should to write a story a la greek epic depicting the great editor war.

@JordonBiondo And post it as their nomination.

@JonEricson 1200 characters is a bit short for an epic. But yes, @JordonBiondo , you should.