Re: A GS democracy?
I do not believe a democratic model is ideal for maintenance of a website. The reasons for that are very simple, and some of them are that the founders of website have a moto and a goal for the website. However, if the users are allowed to choose who runs their communicating medium, then the choices may at times be biased, and do more damage to the earned reputation than good. Often the original idea and the principles maybe compromised, and continually may eventually fade to nonexistence.
At a micro level, users may be allowed to vote and pick moderators, if even that. But Admins should always be chosen by a select group, most probably the owner(s) and some sort of a selection committee who have always run this place (i.e. X2, Azkar, Ehsan), and it is them who should decide irrelevant of peoples' vote who should take over for them and run this place on the same moto and keep the principles intact while allowing the overall environment to expand and revolutionize with time thereby keeping the website up-to-date.
A structure doesn't always mean the overall within cannot innovate and/or change with times, it simply means that the structure be kept in the shape its founder meant for it to be. There is a reason this place has been successful thus far, and i think the original structure is a very big part of that equation.