Scratch

Yeah... after a lot of thoughts, questions, and decision changes, I have finally decided to run for mod.

My speech (the bottom part is most important):

Hey, guys. I'm antimonyarsenide. Many of you probably know me, but a lot of you probably don't.

For those of you who don't know me, I guess this speech alone will decide whether or not I have your support. But for those of you who do know me, well, I guess you'll have a little more background knowledge.
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I joined Scratch in late 2009, when one of my friends used it for a science project. I immediately became interested, and made several [not so good] projects. However, I mostly just browsed through other people's projects and gave feedback. Pretty soon, I had a small but close circle of friends on the website.
As I continued making projects and looking at other people's projects, I noticed the uneven distribution of attention. I wondered why people always looked at the same Scratchers' projects, and I wondered if a lesser known Scratcher like me could ever get on the front page.

Well, this isn't a speech about running for curator, so I'll just skip over most of that part. Basically, I somehow made my way to the front page during the summer of 2010. Getting curated by KalinaStar really helped me get some attention. And then, a few weeks later, I decided to try a different method to try to get on the front page- advertising in the forums.
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I made several threads for one of my projects, and basically stayed by those threads, bumping them every once in a while. Admittedly, it was probably a somewhat foolish thing to do, creating multiple threads. But that's not the point here. While keeping those threads in order, I somehow strayed into the miscellaneous forum, where I was met by a surprisingly large amount of respectable Scratchers. After that, I started spending more time on the forums, and eventually got to be known by other forumers.

During this time on the forums, I also noticed quite a few incidences where moderators played a very much needed role in maintaining order. I really respected the moderators, and wished I could help the Scratch community just like they did.

Unfortunately, the summer of 2010 soon ended, and school started. High school has been a big change for me, and I started spending less time on the forums, although I couldn't bring myself to really stop using them.

When election campaign time came, I didn't give it a second thought. Although I really enjoy helping fellow Scratchers, and wish I could be a mod, I felt that I didn't have enough free time, and I would only ruin another Scratcher's dream if I somehow got elected (which is unlikely) and didn't do anything.

However, recently, I started wondering if I really did have time after all. So I made a thread asking about how much time mods are supposed to spend modding, and the answers I got seemed to point me towards giving it a shot.

I know that I'm not entirely mature, and may often make mistakes. But if I'm elected, I promise to try my best to keep the forums a clean, safe, helpful, and happy place for everyone. Although I may not have much free time, I'll try my best. And I am very willing to learn.

So, I would appreciate it very much if you would consider voting antimonyarsenide for moderator.