Not sure if anyone would like the post or not, but it wasn’t a thread created by forum members to postulate their candidacy to it, and the idea really dies with the referenced threads themselves, going no further.

This, on the other hand, was at some point and unofficial voting that took place at the end of 2016, with what seemed to have had 126 voters and 8 candidates to "choose" a Global Moderator: [Unofficial] New Global Moderator Election - [Voting]. The poll seemed more serious, and originated by staff members themselved. The poll winners were @Lauda and @Mitchell, although I haven’t been able to trace it from there to see if the poll had any influence at all on the selected Global Moderator.