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Welcome to my Web site!
Why is it important you may ask, well I will tell you.
We are here tonight because we love DSLR.
We are proud of what DSLR is and what it can become.
My fellow DSLR Members: we are here tonight united in one simple
purpose: to make DSLR stronger at home and respected on the interweb.
A great American novelist wrote that you can't go home again. He could
not have imagined this evening. Tonight, I am surfing DSLR. DSLR is
where my Interent life began and there it was made possible to live.
DSLR where our Site's history was written in blood, idealism, and hope.
A DSLR where Justin showed me the values of family, faith, and country.
Thank you, all of you, for a welcome to DSLR I will never forget.
I wish my parents could share this moment. They went to their rest in
the last few years, but their example, their inspiration, their gift of
open eyes, open mind, and endless world are bigger and more lasting than
any words.
I was born in Michigan, in A Hospital, when my dad was a pilot in Space
War II. Now, I'm not one to read into things, but guess which wing of
the hospital the maternity ward was in? I'm not making this up. I was
born in the DSLR Wing!
My mother was the rock of our family as so many mothers are, Can you
smell what she is cookin?. She stayed up late to help me do my homework
as many of my co-dslr members do. She sat by my bed when I was sick,
Allowed me to post about my illness verses going to the hospital, and
They answered the questions of a child who, like all children, found the
world full of wonders and mysteries.
She was my den mother when I was a DSLR Scout and she was so proud of
her DSLR pin as a DSLR Scout leader. She gave me her passion for the
DSLR. She taught me to see DSLR as the cathedrals of nature. And by the
power of her example, she showed me that we can and must finish the
march toward full equality for all DSLR members.
My dad did the things that a boy remembers. He gave me my first DSLR
account, my first EMO MP3 and my first post. He also taught me that we
are here for something bigger than ourselves; he lived out the
responsibilities and sacrifices of the greatest generation to whom we
owe so much.
When I was a young man, he was a mod, stationed in Berlin when it and
the world were divided between regular member and MVM. I have
unforgettable memories of being a kid mesmerized by the fancy tags, MVM,
MOD, VIP, each of them guarding their own part of the site. On one
occasion, I rode my keyboard into mac forum. And when I proudly told my
dad, he promptly grounded me.
But what I learned has stayed with me for a lifetime. I saw how
different life was on different sides of the same site. I saw the fear
in the eyes of members who were not MVM. I saw the gratitude of people
toward the MODS for all that they had done. I felt goose bumps as I got
off a tread and heard the lock strike. I learned what it meant to be a
DSLR Member. I learned the pride of our freedom. And I am determined now
to restore that pride to all who post on DSLR.
My parents inspired me to Post, and when I was a junior in high school,
Hitachi SR called my generation to service, I must post, I must. It was
the beginning of a great journey a time to march for civil rights, for
MVM rites, for the cooler, for women/hotties, and for peace. We believed
we could change the world. And you know what? We did.
But we're not finished. The journey isn't complete. The march isn't
over. The promise isn't perfected. Tonight, we're setting out again. And
together, we're going to write the next great chapter of DSLR's story.
We have it in our power to change the site again. But only if we're true
to our ideals and that starts by telling the truth to the DSLR people.
That is my first pledge to you tonight. As MVM, I will restore trust and
credibility to the DSLR.
I ask you to judge me by my record: As a young Poster, I fought for
EMO's rights and made prosecuting flaming against women a priority. When
I came to the cooler, I broke with many in my own party to vote for a
useless polls, because I thought it was the right thing to do. I fought
to put a 100,000 mods on the street.
And then I reached across the aisle to work with fellow members, to find
the truth about our banned members and missing in action, and to finally
make peace with the commies.
I will be a MVM who will never mislead us into trolls.
My fellow DSLR Members, this is the most important election of our
lifetime. The stakes are high. We are a site at war a global war on
flaming against an enemy unlike any we have ever known before. And here
at home, postcounts are falling, tool point costs are rising, and our
great normal poster is shrinking. People are posting on weekends;
they're posting at two jobs, three jobs, and they're still not getting a
high enough count.
We're told that outsourcing jobs is good for DSLR. We're told that new
members post 9,000 less than the members that have been lost is the best
we can do. They say this is the best site we've ever had. And they say
that anyone who thinks otherwise is a pessimist. Well, here is our
answer: There is nothing more pessimistic than saying DSLR can't do
better.
We can do better and we will. We're the optimists. For us, this is a
site of the future. We're the can do people. And let's not forget what
we did in the late 1990s. We opened the site. We raised membership. We
created 10 million new members. We lifted millions out of not posting
and we lifted the standard of posting for the average poster. We just
need to believe in ourselves and we can do it again.
So tonight, in the Site where DSL's freedom began, only a few forums
from where the sons and daughters of justin created this forum here
tonight, on behalf of a new birth of the members on behalf of the
average poster who deserve a champion, and those struggling to join it
who deserve a fair shot for the brave men and women posting who risk
their lives every day and the families who pray for their return for
all those who believe our best days are ahead of us for all of you
with great faith in the DSLR people, I accept your nomination for MVM.
To all of you, I say thank you for teaching me and testing me but
mostly, we say thank you for standing up for our site and giving us the
unity to move DSLR forward.
My fellow members, the site tonight is very different from the site of
four years ago. But I believe the DSLR people are more than equal to the
challenge.
As MVM, I will ask hard questions and demand hard evidence. I will
immediately reform the MOD system so policy is guided by facts, and
facts are never distorted by politics. And as MVM, I will bring back
this Site's time-honored tradition: the DSLR never flames because we
want to, we only flame because we have to.
I know what kids go through when they are carrying an keyboard in a
dangerous place and they can't tell friend from foe. I know what they go
through when they're out bowsing at night and they don't know what's
coming around the next click. I know what it's like to mey mod letters
home telling your MODS that everything's all right when you're not sure
that's true.
As MVM, I will wage this flame with the lessons I learned in flames.
Before you go to battle, you have to be able to look a parent in the eye
and truthfully say: "YOUR KID IS A F-IN EMO/RICE. KICK HIS ASS" So
lesson one, this is the only justification for flaming.
And on my first dayas MVM, I will send a message to every Member on our
site: You will never be asked to flame without a plan to win the peace.
I know what we have to do in the cooler. We need a MVM who has the
credibility to bring our allies to our side and share the burden, reduce
the cost to site members, and reduce the risk to DSLR mods. That's the
right way to get the job done and bring members home.
Here is the reality: that won't happen until we have a MVM who restores
DSLR's respect and leadership -- so we don't have to go it alone in the
interweb.
And we need to rebuild our alliances, so we can get the DDOSSER before
they get us.
I defended this site as a young poster and I will defend it as MVM. Let
there be no mistake: I will never hesitate to use Hey mod or flame when
it is required. Any troll will be met with a swift and certain response.
We will add 40,000 members not in the cooler, but to strengthen dslr's
forces that are now overstretched, overextended, and under pressure. We
will double our special forces to conduct flame and troll operations. We
will provide our members with the newest quips and hey mods to save
their posts and win the battle.
To all who post on DSLR today, I say, help is on the way.
And tonight, we have an important message for those who question the
patriotism of DSLR members who offer a better direction for our site.
Before wrapping themselves in the white flag and shutting their eyes and
ears to the truth, they should remember what DSLR is really all about.
They should remember the great idea of freedom for which so many have
given their posts. Our purpose now is to reclaim DSLR for itself. We are
here to affirm that when DSLR members stand up and speak their minds and
say DSLR can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the
heart and soul of patriotism.
You see that banner up there. We call her blue bar. The blue banner
forever. I fought under that banner, as did so many of you here and all
across our site. That banner flew from the flame turret right behind my
head. It was shot through and through and tattered, but it never ceased
to sit on top of the site.
That banner doesn't belong to any MVM. It doesn't belong to any ideology
and it doesn't belong to any dslr member. It belongs to all the dslr
people.
My fellow members, polls are about choices. And choices are about
values. In the end, it's not just posts that matter; the MVM who sits at
that keyboard must be guided by principle.
You don't value families by banning kids out of the watercooler and
taking members off our site, so that mods can get another break.
We believe in the family value of caring for our members and protecting
the forums where they post and comment.
And that is the choice in this poll.
We value posts that offer you more not less than you expected before. We
value posts where, when you put in a posters's work, you can actually
bump your post count, provide content, and lift up the quality of
posting. We value a DSLR where the average poster is not being squeezed,
but doing better.
And when I'm MVM, DSLR will stop being the only advanced site in the
interweb which fails to understand that hitachi is a privilege for all,
the connected, and the elected it is a right for all DSLR members.
We value an DSLR that controls its own destiny because it's finally and
forever independent of mod control.
I want an site that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation not the
MOD royal family.
I've told you about our plans for the Site, for forums, for posters.
My fellow members, the high road may be harder, but it leads to a better
place. And that's why mods and members must make this poll a contest of
big ideas, not small-minded attacks. This is our time to reject the kind
of posts calculated to divide member from member, forum from forum, site
from site. Maybe some just see us divided into red forums and blue
forums, but I see us as one site red, white, and blue. And when I am
MVM, the site I lead will enlist people of talent, members as well as
mods, to find the common ground so that no one who has something to
contribute will be left on the sidelines.
These aren't MVM values. These aren't MOD values. They're DSLR's values.
We believe in them. They're who we are. And if we honor them, if we
believe in ourselves, we can build a DSLR that's stronger on the web and
respected in the world.
So much promise stretches before us. DSLR members have always reached
for the impossible, looked to the next horizon, and asked: What if?
Two young bicycle mechanics from Dayton asked what if this airplane
could take off at Kitty Hawk? It did that and changed the world forever.
A young president asked what if we could go to the moon in ten years?
And now we're exploring the solar system and the stars themselves. A
young generation of entrepreneurs asked, what if we could take all the
information in a library and put it on a little chip the size of a
fingernail? We did and that too changed the world forever.
And now it's our time to ask: What if?
What if we find a breakthrough to cure Flaming, Trolling, spaming and
EMO's? What if we have a MVM who believes in posting, so we can unleash
the wonders of My posting saveing millions of posting in my place?
What if we do what adults should do and make sure all our children are
safeon DSLR? And what if we have a leadership that's as good as the DSLR
dream so that bigotry and hatred never again steal the hope and future
of any DSLR members?
I learned a lot about these values on that gunboat patrolling the
watercooler with young mods who came from places as different as Iowa
and Oregon, Arkansas, Florida and California. No one cared where we went
to school. No one cared about our race or our backgrounds. We were
literally all in the same boat. We looked out, one for the other and
we still do.
That is the kind of site I will lead as MVM an site where we are all
in the same boat.
Never has there been a more urgent moment for DSLR members to step up
and define ourselves. I will work my heart out. But, my fellow members,
the outcome is in your hands more than mine.
It is time to reach for the next dream. It is time to look to the next
horizon. For DSLR, the hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days
are still to come.
Goodnight, God bless DSLR, and God bless America. |
