If you're living under a rock you may not have heard of the Make a Minnow foundation. It's a great project brought on by one of the MSP moderators @sammosk (the single most active community member in PALnet) with some extra special help and love by @eturnerx. Frankly all of teamaustralia might have their hands in this...
It's a project whereby the MSP community rents delegation and lifts up 1 minnow to a 10k SP Dolphin for 4 weeks. It's a way for us to shout out to the stars "This Community Stands by the Awesomeness of this Person. This Community stands in Awe of their great contributions. This Community offers gratitude for their service."
My nomination
One of the single most important parts of the Minnow Support Project is MSPWaves. Not only is it a great mouth piece for us, not only is it a technological excellence, not only is it a great draw for Steemit and Crypto, but honestly... it's just a shit ton of fun. While there are several people that can be held up as creating this thing from the DJs that run the shows, the guys who manage it (@ma1neevent, @r0nd0n), the guy with the vision to say "hey we should build a radio station," or even some of the audience members like @kubbyelizabeth that make it really fun to participate... the guy that really did and does the lion's share is @sircork.
So, I've written one love letter let this stand as another
There are a lot of extremely talented, kind, and service oriented people in the MSP community. There are folks that literally give every waking hour to this place it seems. If you see a name in blue they don't just think of MSP as a place to chill, but many of us think of it as a digital home. It's a home because we have friends and family in there that understand our viewpoints, speak kindly to us, support one another on the ups and downs of life, and yes, we help eachother be successful on the block too.
In part because the guy doesn't actually sleep normally and in part because his work is international in scope, and in part because he's quite a talented programmer @sircork has built himself quite the reputation. While at times that reputation has been a little mixed with sass and spunk of late those days seem long past. What we have is an incredibly talented and gifted man, who lives in service to delivering the message of thanks and gratitude and doing that primarily through the radio station/mouthpiece that he built from scratch from little more than "hey, let's build a radio station."
There are many talented and wonderful minnows, but today is @sircork's day to be my nomination for MaM
To the pondies. I hope you know you're loved. I'm filled with gratitude that you spend your time in the home I helped build for all of us. It's literally one of the best communities I've ever found and I'm daily astounded I helped build it. Your day will come too. I know you're working hard and spreading the mission of Peace, Abundance, and Liberty in your own way I'll do my best to support you all. I'll make sure those of you who kick ass on behalf of this place get a turn in the spotlight. You deserve nothing less for your hard work.
With love and gratitude to the pond, the mods, the witnesses, and today above all- @sircork; who receives my nomination for MaM.
Oh my god. How do you make a comment that indicates you are on your knees, speechless with humility and gratitude? Where is the speechless emote? Halp! I have fallen in flattery and I can't get up!
This is literally staggering. I am honestly.... just. Humbled. Thrilled. Excited and a little frightened by the responsibilities and accountabilities that come with this honor.
I will try not to let you all down.
wow.
just.
wow!
Thank you.
@SirCork
well, keep in mind it's a nomination and not an award yet.
The truth is, I didn't exactly realize that, but even so, I still express all the same feelz. I think despite the flattery and amazing love I feel from being nominated and the gratitude I have to you for it, that a really talented curator minnow would be a better choice than me. I had already voted on sammos post about 4 choices and will continue to campaign for all the others and a couple in particular over myself. #justsayin #nottodownplaythegratitudeIfeel
Sir corks a lot
...for the prize!!!!!!
For the CHILDREN!!!!
All liquid rewards will be donated to the MaM foundation to keep it going.
Clapping furiously
Or a charity organization :)
Congratulations @sircork, you deserve to get this nomination.
And @aggroed, you have done the right thing. I can confirm that @sircork is the person who deserves this nomination. I knew him two days ago, and he was a very friendly person who welcomed me as a stranger to discuss and gave me some very useful suggestions for me.
Thank you for that! I hope that everyone in PAL shows this kind of behavior to our newest friends. I used to not do it so well. I am focused on improving that. I'm glad you met me now instead of then. I look forward to the next time we cross paths in the discord! See you in the ever so much fun #general! :D
congratulations @sircork ! happy for you:)!! I'm relatively new here and I'm curious what PAL is ?
Thank you! PAL is the Peace, Abundance & Liberty Network which operates many minnow-centric initiatives here in the steemit community. Our main homebase is a chat app called discord where we have a ton of offerings called channels for various topics to get new users up and running faster via our Minnow Support Project, MSP Waves Radio Network, various curation initiatives and so much more! Find out the details here: http://minnowsupportproject.org and there are pages about all our things and links to our chat and radio from there! Come meet almost 5000 new friends and jumpstart your steemit life with us in our minnow pond!
Awesome man! Thankyou :) I could not find the channel named PAL in discord but I do have discord
Here's a shortcut ;) https://discord.gg/ns779Gq
Cork has a heart of gold, and as you say, works effortlessly for the community! Great nomination! I'm very proud to be able to work with him.
I love you man. Thank you!
Well done Corky. You deserve it.
Aw thanks choo :D Always a pleasure to hang out with you in #general and party with all our friends!
There's definitely plenty of good times to be had in Discord.
There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years
So bring your good times and your laughter too
We gonna celebrate your party with choo
I love this! 💗💗💗
We love choo!
Sir Cork seems like a bloody nice chap, just checked out his witness report... i may give him a vote after i sip my sherry.
I'd be grateful but I hope you will read my original witness bid too before deciding based on server stats alone!
Which one of those little guys is ClumsySilverDad and which one is Sir Cork? :D
I'm the one sticking the sword up his own nose.
Love it, than I'll be your right hand man, because I prefer to concealed carry!
Woww.. very great
Thanks!
This is very inspiring for me to read an article like this one . Congratulations @sircorck ! Continue in the same spirit :)
Thank you so much!
@Sircork is an outstanding member of @minnowsupport and absolutely a worthy nomination. I have been awed by his effort and transformation in the recent weeks into a humble, considerate, honest and still such a driven person. It is a great pleasure to me to name him as one of my friends and colleagues.
I would have to extend that same compliment to you as well @aggroed, you do amazing things, even if you are not in the public eye 24/7, the spotlight of my admiration is still upon you. I salute you.
Much love, <3
@sammosk
Ps, enjoy the boat.
Thank you Sammo. See the image in my response comment on this page and put your face real close to it and feel it reflecting on you. <3
Nice initiative,
Congrats @sircork you deserve it.
Thanks Jacobite!
what is this project and how can i work thsi nice gay
Visit here http://minnowsupportproject.org to learn more!
Sometimes its hard to feel any love as a minnow
I never met you, but consider yourself loved, my finny minnow friend. Want more of that? Come here, sit at our lunch table. We have cookies... https://discord.gg/ns779Gq
<3
mmmm... cookies. and i can just taste the looooove in them ( the secret ingredient is love )
Let's let that secret OUT!
aww that's awesome! I hope he gets it! Cheers!
Thanks!
Woo-hoo, he was on my list too. Glad you nominated him this round. Congrats Cork.
SirCork totally deserves this nomination. Whenever I speak to him he is running on three hours of sleep and is busy multitasking seven different projects or tasks that are vital either to msp waves or his survival. I wish that I had a half of his dedication and energy. Cork has personally taken time out of his day to give me his input on things. We have sat in the same space for hours sharing his wonderful mix of melancholy music. His work and presence brighten my day, as I'm sure they brighten everyone around the PAL network. Good on ya SirCork.