It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work. I was elected in the very first community election in January and February of 2011, and by now I'm quite possibly in the top five for longest serving community moderators on the original trilogy sites of StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser. I could check, but I'm not motivated. SF has always been the one I worked with and for. 15 years, and I've learned so much about moderation and online technical communities.
The early years of ServerFault were vastly more fractious than the site has been in the last 10, and taught me so much. One particularly vivid example was seeing the toxic reverberations between users from different countries and how they handle escalation of conflict. A particularly volatile mix were the Russian speakers and the folk from the United Kingdom (this was before Brexit), where the very British snide (a plus-one or two escalation from just asking questions, the next step was ad hominem attacks) was taken as an invitation to fight by the Russian speakers (whose plus-one escalation typically was ad hominem attacks, which means the brits saw this as escalation and moved on to flame war), both of which deeply and horribly offended US-based users for whom both were plus-two or plus-three escalations, definitely not a plus one. These flame wars proved the need for moderator coverage during US night time, which has been a factor in every election after mine. It also drove the feature to lock posts to get folk to cool down.
