@MatsK I don't think making people welcome is a moderator issue, more of a question for all of the frequent posters. Anyone here can say "welcome!" to a new poster. People new to SE won't even know what a moderator is. As I said in my nomination post I "have tried to not be overly harsh on closing questions from enthusiastic beginners".

@LookAlterno You vote once the nominations close, assuming we get 4+ nominations, and less than 11. If there are more than 10 candidates there is another phase where you get to give a +1 or -1 vote to each one, in an attempt to whittle down the number of candidates to the 10 most electable. The next phase starts in 13 hours from the time of this message.

As I have mentioned here we need more nominations for moderator or the election will not go ahead. Stack Exchange rules require at least one more nomination than positions to be filled, so that there is a proper election, and not just have the positions filled by default.

@NickGammon in this particular case the self-imposed rules of SE elections are, uhm, not that helpful. Unless there really is reason against one of the candidates according to their performance as a pro tem, it should be fine if they continue as elected mods even if no other nominations are available.

It's actually a good thing that all pro tems offer to continue to support the site as moderators.

... but if you really want another candidate without any hope to win (barely having the required 300 reputation and a candidate score of about 2); granted it would be better if any of the more active users would nominate themselves

@GraceNote, so how does the election proceed from here?

@Ghanima Nominations will run for an entire additional week

allright then, time for Nick to convince some good candidates

@Ghanima Thanks for the offer. :) Let's see if someone else nominates. My "call to action" post took somewhat longer than expected to appear in the sidebar due to caching, so it might not have been noticed in time.

Also, had I known about that rule I might have tried harder to get other candidates.