The community's thoughts on moderator nominees are apparently considered by SE for appointing moderators pro tempore. They look for members who:
Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent participation.
Show an interest in their meta’s community-building activ...
@Carpetsmoker touché. On the other hand I hope you realize that the gutting of the clipboard code was temporary and even at the worst of it there was a simple way you could access the functionality through a little Vimscript to bridge the non-functional API to one that worked so usage wasn't really interrupted, only the API got rewired up to a different subsystem and that was/is quite a process.
Currently the site is in private beta, so all the questions/links are not accessible by non-users. The site already has over 240 questions and it'll pass 2 weeks soon.
When the site would be published and who decide about it? What's still missing?
Related:
What criteria do we need to meet to ...
I made in my vimrc an abbreviation because I want to only write "foo" to write "bar", and thence I mapped "bar" to "NOPE" so that I would be punished if I tried to write directly "bar".
iabbrev foo bar
inoremap bar NOPE
The result though is when I write "foo", vim replaces it with "NOPE". How ...