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@JennyD yes, that might well have been better. My point was that as SE say that moderator election platforms don't constitute a community endorsement, what need have they to pre-vet them? Simpler for them, surely, to parachute in after the event and unilaterally remove a lawfully-elected moderator.
@JennyD unfortunately I tried that argument on Shog9 during a recent debacle, and was told that the election position didn't count as a clear statement to the community (or, more precisely, the community's votes for a particular moderator didn't constitute a community endorsement of his/her platform in the same way that upvotes on a proposal in meta did.
It takes five privileged non-mod users to close a question - but only five. Other equally privileged users may not think a question worth closing, and some may think it worth answering, and their opinions are just as valid. I upvoted Massimo's answer, because I thought it was a good one! To me, the fate of this question demonstrates the community in action.
Vinicius, you should probably also understand the function of canonical questions on SF. More can be found at meta.serverfault.com/questions/1986/… , if you're curious.
