We have a great staff team at the moment, and your community vote would just be a bunch of trolls and no serious candidates.
I haven't received one pm from anyone saying
"hey, I know your not asking everyone, but look at "insert name here" for moderator, he is very helpful and knows what he is doing."
Its always new threads trolling in the spam section. How do you think the staff picks the team, they ask "how do you feel about ****** for global, or chat box" If its enough for yes we look further and maybe give them a chance. We don't just promote on who I think is the best, I ask the staff team. I would never just promote someone. I ask everyone what they think before making any decisions. Then we go through a trial period of watching over them.
Someone suggested someone the other night and within 5 minutes we started laughing because the guy was very helpful for a long time and never had one slip up and right after we mentioned him he went on a rampage.