A special word of advice to @Mithrandir: it's now really important that you start taking "Patience, my young padawan" to heart. It's been turned into something of a joke, but it's real, serious advice.

A big part of a moderator's job involves sitting back and doing nothing, letting the community have their say before expressing your own opinion. If you want another platitude, "fools rush in where angels fear to tread". For the love of G-d, don't start testing all (or any) of the mod tools right away until you actually have something worth testing them on!

(I really hope my saying this doesn't spoil your otherwise-happy moment. The only reason I didn't say something along these lines earlier was because I thought it might upset you, or seem insincere coming from a 'competing' candidate. But now you're going to have to get used to receiving hate-filled abuse and not even being able to vent about it, so you should be fine with friendly advice from someone who is your sock has your best interests at heart ;-) )

You have it in you to be a great mod, but it's going to be a steep learning curve and you'll need to be ready to take a lot of advice and to change in some ways.