I can honestly say I had not decided to run when framing those questions. Indeed, the purpose of the questions for me was to work out whether the body of candidates would represent my views (y'know, the point of a representative democracy).

I've never suggested that answering them is a prerequisite for accepting a nomination; that was your own misreading of a friendly comment between myself and javispedro (ask him if he felt answering them was in someway necessary to stand). However, I did (and do) feel that if a community member wants to survey the candidates they should be entitled to answers; and that it is beholden on the candidates to make their positions as clear as possible by providing as much collateral as possible.