Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-27398195-20190101081253/@comment-26234016-20190107142541

Dear Faraday,

Back when you were called Didthisformakingroles, but had dropped in activity, I remember users like Yes I'm Single prophesizing the end of the wiki, a golden age that had fallen with an influx of new users who had no respect for this place. This was a year or two ago, but by the tailend of 2017, I was ready to admit they were right. As much as I loved and respected all the new members of the community, it wasn't what it once was.

Midway through 2018, I just left this place. It had changed too much for me, I thought, I wasn't 'in' with the new crowd and the skills I had that were useful to this place– role reviewing, writing stories– were utterly useless. We were swamped with role reviewers and no one had time to read. So I left– I didn't feel guilty, I was just ready to close this chapter of the book.

Around October of this year, you sent me a message. You, more than anyone else, brought me back onto this wiki. And I saw you evolve from Paul Choly, a barely active (but promising) roleplayer to one of the most valuable non-admins on this wiki. One of the best role reviewers, constantly civilized and always forthcoming with something valuable to say. I'm in awe that you hadn't won before.

And not only did you win, but you won with seventeen votes. There are very few races I can remember that surpassed that level (the jaw-dropping 20-19 split when Sondz won comes to mind, but that was an intense competition- here, you won simply because so many people simply came out of the woodwork to support you.

You not only deserved to win, it was practically fated. This race, this landslide victory, is the best example I can think of that this wiki isn't in decline, that the change our wiki is going through isn't for the worse. Faraday, you are the change for the better that our wiki has. That's you.

So yeah, there's the big speech. Hope it didn't come off as too corny.