It happens (and sometimes for the worse) but I think we've been overruled ... once? in the 4 years or so I've been a mod
shrug. I think we can agree to disagree there?
I kinda think the experience we've had for/with SU and what seems to have happened on SF are quite different
I actually feel that letting CMs, well go back primarily to handling the interface with the communities might actually help a lot.
So in a practical sense, I do actually think the mod team "runs" SU mostly