at the time where the mods began to gain power there was a groupthink, a culture and no election since has been able to shift that default. I don't like how the rules work but because I don't share the groupthink nobody cares. IIRC Whenever I tried to express these views on meta I got downvoted because "people are just blowing off steam, its a different culture here from SO".

It was ugly, I hated it. It felt like I was 13 years old again.