I think I've almost never expressed much desire to 'run things'.
Site politics are a different matter though. I expressed a LOT of interest
in laying down the correct procedural frameworks. Unfortunately, that drove
everyone to give up any semblance of a shared responsibility to run the site.
Honestly though, I didn't see much point to a democracy here, other than to
test out theories. Chaos served well enough to show more interesting points
in that regard actually. As does my current site (which I guess I 'run' insofar as
anyone does - I install mods and hunt down spambots).