Personally, I think there should be several criteria involved:
You should be very, very active. One of if not the most active staff member here (no point promoting someone if you're not here much or there's others that are here twice as much).
You should have been a moderator for quite some time (personally, I don't think a patroller or Local board Member should go straight to Global without having moderated other larger sections first which they could be promoted to in due course if they do a good job and are obviously very active. Put in the time and effort and you'll likely get promoted further over time).
Should be in the very top percentage of staff who handle the most reports a month (and accurately so).
Report a lot of posts (if you're not really reporting any posts yourself for whatever reason then there are plenty of other staff that still are and would be more beneficial to promote them instead).
Without having anything else to add, I think this is a nicely summarized list.
What may be obvious to you may not be obvious to others (or it may have been marked as 'bad').
I'm actually indirectly talking about a specific example that I recall recently. It was very obvious (assessed by different individuals) and took quite a while to handle (then again things have not been moving swiftly). I can PM you about it.
Every board should have one or two non-Globals attached and this will solve that issue of any reports not getting handled.
That is actually a good idea that should be discussed.
In an ideal world they should be subjective but we don't live in an ideal world.
Don't you mean objective?
What happens if there's one user with dozens of accounts that likes or dislikes you? That would probably put you out of the race instantly.
This would ruin the social experiment, but that possibility should have been known from day 1.
I'm sure there's others who would have also liked to be included.
Everyone who was ellegible received a PM (excluding Hostfat by mistake, but they were added 1 day later).
People have stated their interest in being a Global and theymos can take that into consideration along with all the stats/info he has access to but this thread shouldn't decide anything other than who is the most popular non-global mod.
Correct and that is covered in the disclaimer in the other thread (+ the 'unofficial'). Promoting someone just based on those votes would be irrational IMO and that is not what I expect to happen.