@avazula I'd like to clarify my answer a bit. You misunderstood my point slightly, which means others may have as well, so I'll try to state it more clearly. I don't expect high rep users to necessarily know or care about the community imposed rules (providing backup, etc...). What I do expect them to know is the mechanics of how to use SE (how to flag a post for undeletion, asking on meta, etc...).

One other thing on that point though. I recognize most of the high rep users by name, but when I see one that I don't recognize, I'll typically go look at their profile to see if they've been a consistent contributor and were just inactive for a while or if they got 4k rep from 2 HNQ answers a year and a half ago.

@Rainbacon That seems more like you indeed :)

@avazula Your right. I see bad behavior from both high rep users and regular users alike.

@WBT It's a new process that SE is using

It's pro-tempore in the sense that any moderators elected now would have to re-run on site graduation.

We are running a "full election" in that all of the election activities that a graduated site goes through happen here

What's different is that the moderator elected will be a "pro -tempore" moderator, which like Mithrandir said, means they would have to run again to retain the moderator title upon site graduation

Ah, OK. I had thought pro-tempore meant appointed, for some reason.

It used to

The process changed last year

Yeah, before this spring pro-tempore mods were always appointed. Now beta sites may have elections later on in life, if they need new mods.

the pro-tem election process really just means that SE will run the election page (nominations and voting). all the other stuff - question collection, questionnaire, chatroom - are totally optional (and community-run, not CM-run) - but IPS denizens wanted to go all out :P