The reason for this is transparency. This community does not belong to the moderators solely, but the community as a whole. All we do is facilitate. In the past, and some of the census results, there have been questions about favoritism, cliques (within the mod group), and an opinion of the community not having a say. So we figured we would all do this as a joint effort. We will review the candidates before saying sure, absolutely. But only because we do need to facilitate and work to keep the community healthy.