User blog:Freehugs41/If anything.

I need to say this. Right now.

The reason I want to stay in charge of this wiki is to be able to finish what I started, and to make my ideas complete. When I see what my opponents are saying, it really, really insults me. I have spent the past six months of my life as your president, trying to make this wiki a better place. Not by adding fancy new stuff. By trying to get a stronger understanding of what it means to be a team through this wiki. When it comes down to it, we are a team. We can fight and flip out at each other all we want, but we are still a team. We're fighting for the same cause and we need to awknowledge that.

What I need to say though, is not about why you should vote for me. It's not about me being mad at anyone who's saying things about my ideas and change and all that. It's about what kind of thing I think the wiki should be focused on.

This wiki is worthless if we don't work together as a team, and I think that we should all be focused on us as a team. The admin and rollback powers are to keep the team in line. But, when it comes down to it we're all just users, and we all need to work together. This means disagreeing. This means agreeing to disagree. And, most importantly, this means agreeing to listen to those you agree to disagree with. Yes this is hard, but it is worth it. The most essential part is to respect the work of others.

We need to respect the work that people put into this wiki, as we want people to respect what we put into it. This is why that I feel like my ideas, the ones I've worked so hard on, should be treated with more substance than they are being treated with now. I've spent six months working on council and I just started roundtable. And I'm hearing all these things about how much it's failing about about how we need to do this and this and this and only then will it be up to par. I'm tired of this.

I don't care if I lose. I'd love to win. But the point is that the one thing I want out of this election is to know that all of the hard work that I have put into this wiki will have weight in the future. That's all that is important to me anymore.

This is not to attack anyone. This is not to attack everyone. This is about no one in particular, but I needed to get this off my chest.

We need to be a team guys. Don't go all Killer Grips on me :-/