Pixie - I do understand what you are trying to do, but your tone in this thread has indeed been a bit condecending as MouseMaddness said. For instance, your choice of poll options - they sound very negative ("I want people to notice...", "ego", etc.) and although you said you "wanted to understand" you made it sound like you wanted to understand why we wear underpants on our heads. Your repetition of the same few facts to and dismissal of ideas and thoughts in this thread is very clear, especially early on, and you did come across as believeing you have the golden answer to the whole situation and everyone else just didn't "get it". You may have changed your tune later in the thread (a bit...) but that indeed is how you originally came across. Same as with your friend and his "Why don't we close Disney World???" thread - although your message has merits the way you present it needs intense work if you are going to be this liason you seem to want to be.
You seem to have come to a better understanding by the end of the thread, but if you are going to attempt to be an arm of the Disney company as you seem to want to be - posts like you made above to MouseMaddness are not conducive to this "diplomat" title you have given yourself. Additionally, you MUST expect people to hold you to task for what you say and how you say it if you want to be a representative of the Disney company.
This thread did come across, exactly as MouseMaddness said, as a "you are all wrong and here is why", to me as well. I attempted to discuss my feelings (which you ignored and didn't bother to reply to, though you did most everyone else), and you still haven't answered my question as to if you are in charge of this or not, as your posting earlier where you said :
If it seems that Guests would prefer the hard tickets, including the possible hassle of it all, then I guess we will go for it.
- makes it sound like it's your decision to to make. Perhaps in the future, if you wish to be a representative of the Disney company on these boards as you seem to want to be, perhaps a lesson in tactfully dealing with the criticism without attitude is in order. MouseMaddness certainly felt it, as did I, and I know a couple of others who have discussed this thread with me in PM felt the same way.
I would have let it go, but your posting to MouseMaddness showed that you don't see it at all. In another thread you told me to "if you don't like it don't read it" (and that was the only content of your post) - and as I said there, if you want to be this "diplomat" you need to work on your diplomacy, as any criticism of your methods draws a heated reply from you refusing to acknowledge the issue.
Diplomacy means, "Tact and skill in dealing with people," according to dictionary.com . I'm sure you will either ignore this post, or post some heated tirade saying I'm not right (or get one of your friends to - you guys like to tag team so you don't have to directly address the criticism) - but perhaps you should print out this thread and in a few months/years look back at it and maybe you can see why you did indeed (and often do) come across in this manner, and in a less than diplomatic way.
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