Yeah, I'm not really sure if we need section specific mods. The mods themselves have stated that their primary issues with doing things on this list are just because they can't. Adding section mods might relieve them of their attachment to 'moderating the sections' but as it stands that is only a fraction of their work anyway. It'd alleviate a burden that currently has no need to be alleviated.

Rather I'd add more moderators like we currently have to relay the administrative tasks and keep people focused in the right direction. If the mods want to maintain their status as janitor staff, then that is fine, that's their choice no matter how much I disagree with it. But fact of the matter is, more hands are needed, more janitors are needed, not because there's so much rules being broken (according to the staff, since there's not many reports apparently) but because A) there is no vision for the future and if there is, it's not unified and every moderator has a vision for themselves and B) they need people to take over the slack that inevitably arises when Mahz is not present. 

So, having section moderators will probably just make things more complicated than they have to be.

And that is entirely unrelated to elections, which is imho just a bad idea. I'd rather have a system where there is a form you can fill in to 'apply' for a moderator position where you include things like past experience, motivations and other relevant information which will then be evaluated by the admins and I suppose other moderators.

That way you ensure that everyone can at least have a shot to put their name in the basket. It doesn't mean that we won't end up with nepotism in terms of picking other mods, but that is something that no matter of process can prevent anyway unless we literally start drawing random names for the positions - which would be awful and don't do that.