Since there are still new followers arriving I'm happy to delay the next phase to maximise the number of people we end up with for private beta. So I've moved my votes to deserving questions lower down (with considerably fewer than 10 votes).
I hope no one minds - I just see this giving us the best chance of having enough people to produce a flood of good questions when private beta arrives.
I've also downvoted and voted to close some questions. It's clear that we will make it to commitment phase, and the number of followers makes it likely we will also reach private beta phase. That seems inevitable. So I want the focus now to be on making sure the example questions are the right example questions, rather than just getting enough upvotes to progress to the next stage.
We're winning already - we don't need to be desperate.