Yeah, I bitterly missed "too minor" and put it in as a custom comment a couple of times, but there were SO MANY OMG.

@MDMarra I know, but it's fair to point that out.

@HopelessN00b Fair enough, but I think that the time to raise concerns was during the election itself. Democracy may or may not work, but you still won. Some folks have made it plain that they don't like you and/or disliked your spiel; that's fine. IMHO, it's time for Kyle to take his concerns to you directly, mod to mod, seeing as how you're both the adult supervision now. And frankly, it's different coming from you than it is from another mod. From you, it's charming and humble. :) From another mod, not so much.

@KyleBrandt With respect, I think it's time for the parents to stop arguing in front of the children. Stop undercutting the new mod.

Congratulations!

No offense to teh N00b, whom I like very much, but I suspect that what many perceived/perceive as an outsider coming in and taking potshots at him and his nomination spiel helped his campaign. Opposition tends to cement strongly held opinions and positions, rather than changing them. See Backfire Effect, etc.

I wish I could downvote one twice. :P

@JourneymanGeek There was one memorable question that seemed to boil down to, "The people who manage my active directory are completely unavailable, and I have no privileges to change a computer's OU, so to add a computer to the OU it needs to be in I change the name of a computer on my workbench, then give my new computer the same name, stand on my head, cross my fingers, and remove/re-add the machine. Why isn't this working as expected?" Um. (Dude! Sorry your admins are unresponsive, but talk to them, anyway. We can't do anything about that.)

Thanks, @ChrisS. That makes a lot of sense.

@AndrewB "this isn't exactly the best way for multiple mods to make their reintroduction" What you said.

I like it! Definitely an improvement, IMHO.