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long live niketalk
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NikeTalk is bigger than any one of us.
That right there is the main reason this board is so great still, no matter how much trolling and childish behavior takes place from me and the tens ofthousands of other people here..
I've been on plenty of other boards in the last 10+ years - I still frequent some of them, but I stumbled on this place about 9 years ago and I keep comingback because there is a real sense of community here not found in other places on the internet. I don't personally know too many people here, but I feellike we're all one big dysfunctional family moreso than anywhere else on the nearly infinite amount of space on the web.
It's thanks to Meth and the other guys who run things here that such a feeling of community exists and thrives - other places are quick to institutepolicies that act more as a dictatorship and/or monopoly, where it's their way or the highway and you always feel like an out of place guest who isn'twelcomed for anything but revenue streams for the owners.
Here at NT you have people making decisions for the good of the community, based on what's best for the whole of the community. While these thingsaren't always understood or appreciated by everyone all the time, they are a real testament to the types of people we have running Niketalk and itshouldn't be taken for granted - today is as good a day to show appreciation for that fact than ever.
So with that all in mind - I just want to thank everyone here at NT and say here's to another decade.
If there's one moment I am proudest of in NikeTalk's history, it's not breaking the XV1 sketch to the public - our first major exclusive, way back when I was actually posting news and sample pictures. It's not Ekin702's "wallet breakers," though those were great times. It isn't NikeTalk's mention in Kicks 2, Details, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, or even the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It isn't the day we learned that a Jordan brand designer was posting on the site back in 2000, the day one of our own joined the industry as a designer or product line manager, or when I knew, for certain, that Michael Jordan had heard of us. No, the proudest moment for me came when our staff members were presented with a choice:
Keep the revenue we generate from ads as a personal stipend (they'd clearly earned it)
Or
Pool that money together, all of the money we might otherwise receive as compensation, and donate it to charity.
Not one person - not ONE - spoke up in favor of keeping the money. Every single active member of the staff at that time was on board with the plan to begin donating our ad revenue to charity.
Sneaker fans have given an inordinate amount of attention in recent years to "defining moments." That act, to me, was our staff's defining moment.
I consider it an honor to find myself in their company.
Since that decision, we've donated over $100,000 to various charities - and that's only the beginning.