Perhaps I came to the same conclusion, that negativity requires far less energy?

Actually that is not it at all and I think you misunderstood my posts about looking for positive rather than negative.  I was referring to when we initially read a post, or a homepage for that matter.  Upon reading OPs homepage it was immediately evident to me what he was trying to express, whether or not he did so eloquently is another matter entirely.  It's been covered over and over again how text is not the best medium for communication - so armed with that knowledge we should always be aware of the fact that we might not be seeing things exactly as they were intended and should refrain from immediately jumping to the conclusion that the person meant something negative and going for the jugular.

""Unless freebie providers put up with lashing out and putdowns and beligerance because of any idiosynchracies of their 'freebies', people act like we insist to be held on a pedestal."

This is a fine example, and when you referred to my post as what you intently dislike.  I was neither beligerant nor lashing out.  I was however being sarcastic and pointing out some some of the counterproductive flaws in the argument.  This is also another great example of only seeing the negative.  I wont go as far as to re-quote my post but I can say with 100% certainty that I did not "yell at"  or "put someone down"  in my quoted post.

""It's simple, if I'm going to be yelled at and have to listen to put downs (like your quoted post - that was anything but constructive critique) for offering freebies, I won't offer them any more.""

I actually haven't critiqued anything but the attitude on the part of the freebie providers/community regarding the OP.  I said that I felt his post was reasonable and that people were trying HARD to look for negatives in posts - which is again evident in the response to my post.

""Is this like a constructive critique that my dense highness is not understanding?""

Im pretty sure I didn't call anyone dense.  You Connie are certainly far from that.  If we must insist on looking for negatives to latch onto because that requires less energy than I have to observe that making things up has to require more energy. 

I am:  aka Velocity3d