If you don’t know, this Forum has 4 “Trust Levels” to track users’ progress and encourage them to be active by giving more perms at each level. Trust levels 1-3 are automatic and can be gained just by being active here and making high quality contributions, but TL4 can only be gained when a staff manually promotes them. You can read more about Trust Levels here
Due to the Forum expanding, from now on we will have an election at every major member-count milestone (2k, 3k, 4 etc) and have a public poll to select the next TL4 or Leader in the community.
The only requirement is that you must be TL3, agree to be a candidate, and not have any moderation action against you in the past month. We will probably have the next TL4 election at 3,000 members.