I've been AFK for a lil' bit. Just skimmed thru this thread. Wow!
Neven, good stuff for doing what you did. I've been there myself - total burnout after being a website forum mod / admin for a number of years. It was a music-related site, whose (private, invite-only) forums peaked at just over 100,000 users during my tenure. Even now, years later, I can barely be bothered to check out new music etc., it burnt me out that bad. I should have stepped back much sooner.
I sincerely hope your timing is much better than mine was.
I'd throw my hat in the ring, but, yeah, see the above. And I do not have enough time for it. It's still tempting because of how much I value this place - although truth be told I don't really care much at all about anything outside of the Cryosphere section of the forums, and ASIB/G.
The mods I see now are fine by me, and I'd love to see any of the more regular contributors from the Cryosphere section in there as well. (gero, juan, alum, abrupt, uniq, et al.) That of course is without me seeing any of their posts in political threads, haha.
I'd also vote kassy purely for her taste in music. Because that's important, goddammit.