You wrote:
After reading David Gerard's post "RFA has gone weird"[1] two weeks back, I decided on a whim to nominate myself for adminship. [2] My principle was that I would largely ignore the existing process for the calcified barnacle that it is and apply a no-nonsense stance towards self-important questioning...
What a marvelous experiment! Well done, very well done. I was thinking of doing something like that myself; now I either (a) don't have to, because you already did, or (b) *really* have to, now that you've established the precedent...
I can't say I'm at all surprised at the results you got.
(I do wonder what can be done about the phenomenon?)