# Community Moderator Elections-Are they coming soon?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-moderator-elections-are-they-coming-soon/31671>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2 Agosto , 2015 19:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-moderator-elections-are-they-coming-soon/31671 "2015-08-02T19:00:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [2 Agosto , 2015 19:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-moderator-elections-are-they-coming-soon/31671/5 "2015-08-02T19:45:45Z")

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While a given community may wish to organize itself along more democratic lines, each community that uses discourse as the software to power its forums manages itself and has no implicit affiliation to the discourse organization.

So it doesn’t really make sense to have a widespread system for this type of thing.

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