Quote - 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.

That remined me of some of my college classes, I think it was a speech class. The prof tried to instill into us that the grater responsibility for the message being communicated and understood as intended lays with the communicator. Not with the comunicatee.

If the majority of your apporach is aggressive and combative, but you really wanted to see a positive outcome, then you;re going about it the wrong way.

As you are discovering here, It's always easier to respond in kind, rather then across the board responding kindly.  (If it were the other way around, people would be clamoring for customer service jobs as easy money.)

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