An ongoing concern is the "culture" of MathOverflow. Not to be confused with community norms or other things that have been standardized by inclusion into a more recent version of the StackExchange platform; I'm talking about various aspects of behaviour that were tolerated because of the nature of the audience, as well as because of the goals of the initial moderation team. Samples include wordy (with respect to some other Stackexchange sites) comments and answers, highly variable acceptance/rejection rate of questions, a fair amount of cautious editing, as well as a wide tolerance of voices and styles. (These are from my narrow experiences; I hope someone else will add to this to give their own example of what I mean by culture "apart from other StackExchange fora".)

Assuming a notion of "culture" similar to above, what would a newly elected moderator do to preserve it? Will there be more efforts to preserve the culture, or more to steer it toward things nearer to "what a StackExchange forum should be?"

Please note that the intent here is not to stir up debate about 1.0 vs 2.0 and some of the concerns that were raised back then. The intent is to have a moderator recognize "how MathOverflow was", and whether they will continue to preserve some of that against counterpressures.

Gerhard "It's Not Just About Signatures" Paseman, 2013.09.30