That should have been expected
Personally, I don't care so much about who will get promoted to a Global Moderator position (at least as long as they don't interfere with normal posters) as about the idea of the Banned rank, which has been seemingly abandoned by now. Implementing that would render very bad service to the forum, and it's a pity that those supporting this idea don't fully understand the consequences
A democracy in a private property of someone else
Well wonder know how theymos thinks about this and if he thinks that the forums needs a new global mod or not for the moment.
The experience was great and I personally liked it.
Democracy doesn't work. Neither here, nor anywhere else
And you were given another chance to see this yourself. Maybe, theymos himself was going to select Lauda for a Global Moderator position, but now he can't do that because it would mean going against the crowd opinion (well, the choice of majority), and he may not want that. Maybe, he wanted to pick up Mitchell as a new Global Moderator after all, but now he won't do that since it would mean indulging the crowd, and he might be strongly opposed to that. Aren't we supposed to be this way overall? Consequently, these elections have likely left him no other option but to completely ignore their results, which is perfectly understandable and expected
