Personally, I'm very skeptical and suspicious of these poorly concealed attempts at grabbing more power across the forum, at first through such "interest checks" and then by kicking up a racket about "elections" of a new global moderator...
Would you honestly prefer it if things went on entirely behind closed doors? I like things such as Interest Checks as it gives a chance for the community to say how they feel about a certain addition to the forum. If a feature is implemented into the forum that negatively affected people here it wouldn't be very good for the forum or the community, something like an interest check prevents this from happening
Not all things, of course. But some of them should not be really discussed in public for the reasons that I have explained in the Elections Discussion thread. In short, because such discussions could potentially affect the objectivity and impartiality of the decisions to be taken on these issues by the decision makers (forum administration). On a more global level, it essentially boils down to claiming that democracy (i.e. the right of majority), which you implicitly refer to here, doesn't work if applied for real...
In other words, majority might not be always right, and that could be devastatingly detrimental
If you're against the person posting them, tough; Lauda seems to be one of the few staff members trying to help things here. Posting thread such as this gives Lauda no power over anything to do with the forum without theymos' permission. If you can't trust that theymos would do the right thing, you shouldn't be here
So far I see a rather poorly concealed strife for power