@DamkerngT. Well, one of the issues with community moderation on SE is that it's necessarily not retroactive - we can't go back and check every previous action to ensure it's consistent with the one we've just taken. Certainly, a user is free to make the argument that because it was allowed in the past, it should be allowed now, but that's not a given.

Unless the question was explicitly closed and then reopened, the fact that it was not closed merely means that, at the time, not enough people believed it should have been closed, which is not the same as "most people believed it was on-topic".

Having said that, the threshold for closing a question is reasonably low on ELL, with only 500 reputation required, and we have just under 400 people who can do it. I don't have stats on the number of people who do, in fact, actually work the close review queue, but getting 5 out of 400 people doesn't really seem like a particularly high bar.

@jimsug A very wise opinion. I agree with you.

In other news, we now have the 8th candidate!

@DamkerngT. Nathan is a very good candidate.

He certainly is meta enough to be a mod, and he has spent more time than me on ELL.

I'd say he deserves it more than me.

Hmm, should I withdraw?

I wish I could pick five.

I mean, there are way more worthy people than me now.

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I think there is no need to do so. (Not sure if it's possible anyway.) It will be a great experience for you, I'd say, with or without winning.

K.

I'll stay.

BTW yes, you can withdraw. Also, you can change your votes at any time during the election.

Ah, my suki is ready. See you later. o/

Later!

I don't want to make the election more difficult but it'd be fun to get enough nominees to have the primary... then again, if we don't have a primary, it will be finished sooner and J.R. will have more people to help.