User blog:EvergeenMapping/Running for Chatmod

Alright, guys. It's time I announce something. Because I am a wiki user of >6mo, I am running for chatmod. Because I can, just saying. Whether I get the rights or not, I hope it won't cause a stir in the community. Now, for the actual campaigning!

Clearing some issues up
Yes, I have been banned. I'll flat-out admit it. And for good reasons too (albight mainly benign). Go ahead and check the "Contributions" section of my profile and you'll find everything you need; go ahead, ​ I'm really just too lazy to put the link in guys, sorry about that. Yes, I have made mistakes in the past, and I'm not even going to try and sugarcoat it. But, for times' sake, I would rather not guilt-trip myself over the course of this  bleg  BLOG! I SAID BLOG!

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Ok then, but why should Evergreen be chatmod?
Unlike what my detractors will tell you, I actually have good qualities. For one, I have the same concerns as many of you. The rules aren't put properly on the front page, Mappers are taking political disputes to the extremes, and we have an alt-making crisis. What I can say is that this wiki needs change. REAL change. I am very confident in my own ability to bring the new ideas. Ideas I will discuss down below.

Change? Ideas? Huh?
Alright, in the shortest way I can put it, we need change. We need change in a lot of areas, but I'll just talk about this one subject for now. We don't understand our enemies. We're intolerant to ideas, and the proponents of these ideas eventually become our enemy. I've been on "the wrong side" of several controversies (the creation of "VideoMapping", that one blog I wrote, etc. etc.) and it just seems to me that over time this system we've created here in Mapperdonia is overall too isolationist to maintain with the influx of mappers (possibly over one per day!) and maintain any community in general. I'm not saying we should reach out to other communities and ideas, I'm just saying that we have a general distaste for people who, well, aren't Mappers, and we need people whom are willing to understand that you can't run a completely intolerant yet growing society in the long-term without it collapsing and/or dissolving/dividing. As a community, we must stop with the internal strife that plagues us and look towards the bigger picture to ensure the future of the wiki.

So, that's why I want to be chatmod. Remember, I'm campaigning cuz I can. BAAAAAAAI

EvergeenMapping (talk) 02:27, November 19, 2015 (UTC)