So I had this crazy idea that just might work in order to make sure there are active admins/staff/mods on the site: Elections.

Why?

Because 3 out of the 5 admins are barely active, and the other 2 are only semi-active (still more active than me, but that's not the point ).
Because DJ is tired of people thinking he is an admin, and if we have admins clearly posted (as in, on the front page) and active, meaning people KNOW they are admins, people won't bother him.
Because Geekboy is pretty much the only staff I see posting.
And because Xeda is pretty much the only active CoT (not sure about that though) (Runer should be CoT, IMO).

So yeah, elections. How would they be run?

Members with at least 100 posts can vote.
The current admins (as of 10/30/13) should stay admins.
Votes should be for 2 [EDIT]admin Staff [/EDIT] positions to be reelected every year as well as 3 CoT positions under the same terms.
Only active members may run.

Any thoughts?

That would indeed be a good idea to have people not confuse who is staff and who is not since they chose it. But that only applies to people who voted, not to newbies who come here, see "Omnimaga" in "DJ_Omnimaga" and keep PMing him.

Because Geekboy is pretty much the only staff I see posting.

You forgot about shmibs. But yeah, that still only makes two admins staff I can think of.

Let's do a poll about it

I was about to make that joke, but you ninja'd me lol. People against the vote would have to vote, I find this funny.

Hmmm, I'd say more posts should be required for voting. Something like 500.
But that sounds like a nice idea to me. Also don't forget that Eeems actually runs the server and maintains it, so that counts too.

The problem I have with this is that there's nothing ensuring we get capable mods/admins. Just because someone is popular and respected doesn't mean they'll be able to devote the time to this kind of thing, or that they'll be particularly good at it.

Yeah that is true.
Ninja-edit : That was to Will.

i know, no worries
So, as we already have a decent king, he could appoint the new kings

Back on topic: Wouldn't this make it even more confusing? The list of admins would be constantly changing, so all the ex-admins would get the same pestering as DJ.

Back on topic: Wouldn't this make it even more confusing? The list of admins would be constantly changing, so all the ex-admins would get the same pestering as DJ.

I actually didn't think about that. But I think the admin list wouldn't change that much so long as those admins are still in the favor of the community and are active/productive.

EDIT:

The problem I have with this is that there's nothing ensuring we get capable mods/admins. Just because someone is popular and respected doesn't mean they'll be able to devote the time to this kind of thing, or that they'll be particularly good at it.

Also true, but being more active and more respectable means that they will have better judgement and be able to moderate on pretty much everything, because there will be more people who are actively watching doing stuff.

Also, mods in more time zones make it easier to administrate 24/7