User blog comment:Lalainee/My Awful FU Acceptance Speech Thing/@comment-1874924-20120101233246

Congratulations, Lal. Since I was one of those who had been trying to convince you to run, I'm guessing that you were counting me as one of your "guaranteed" votes.

You're not actually the admin with the lowest edit count. You have the lowest edit count of all the active admins, but you've still got almost 2,000. That's an impressive total for someone who doesn't write--especially considering that you weren't very active during your first several months here--so it's not strange that people thought you were ready. Likewise, you're pretty active on the social side and you do a lot of commenting on people's stories. I wasn't expecting you to break the record, but I can't say I'm shocked, either.

Here's something else to chew on: If I'm not mistaken, you're only the third person (including Sprink, who was the first winner overall) ever to win Featured User (nee Author) on your first try. (I think SG also did it on his first try.) If memory serves, three of us (including Nayld, who was the second winner overall) won on the second try.

Waiting to run until you're pretty sure you can win makes sense for a nonwriter with no works to publicize. Conversely, it's generally to a writer's advantage to run as soon as s/he becomes a viable candidate, because every time they run it's another month's worth of publicity for their work on a high-traffic page.

P.S.: If you want a list of the people who supported you, you can get it on the FU ballot's page history.