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My thread was locked before I could post this explanation.
Do I have an ulterior motive? No, I do not.
Unless your definition of ulterior motive includes "Trying to make a more overall friendly environment for anyone to play PFS (or any public venue leisure activity/game)"
The question your officer has not answered is this:
What is the most common reason/circumstance/situation that makes someone become skeptical?
I ask the above question to everyone above now.
The reason I made the thread the way I did was to get people's initial 'gut reaction' to the word skeptical.
I could have simply asked people if they think there is any negative context to the word skeptical (skepticism), but by doing so they would have been deprived of giving their initial gut response to how they view the word without giving it more thought. I ask that question now as well.
Who thinks the word skeptical has a negative context to it (even if it is only a wee bit)? Who thinks it does not.
What I have been trying to do is help the overall community by making someone (who could let others know) that some people view that word with negative context.
So unless having a good motive equates to having an ulterior motive, No, I do not have an ulterior motive.
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Unfortunately, you did it in a manner that tends to raise a lot of red flags. Now then, a common cause is bad experience. People do not like to be hurt. When we are, we tend to become suspicious when we see what looks like a situation where we were hurt before. Furthermore, most of us are outsiders and have a lot of bad experience before coming here.
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Ulterior just means hidden. Since you were asking the question for unrelated reasons, that means your motive was ulterior. Even now, I have no idea what the connection between "skeptical" and PFS is.
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I had absolutely no plan to call out who prompted me to want to get a public consensus on whether or not people view the word skeptical with a negative context.
Unfortunately the officer, and his captain (who started things right off the bat by posting something rude on my thread) thought I was planning on calling out his officer in the thread.
The officer would have seen the public consensus himself and choose whether to incorporate it into how he does things or not.
The thread was not just for his sake but for mine as well.
So I ask again on here. Do you think the word skeptical has any negative context to it?
Another question I will also ask on here is this: What do you think is the most common reason/circumstance/situation that makes someone become skeptical?
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I tend to 'talk' a lot in hopes all relevant facts are divulged. I am not a fan of people who take things out of context. Some on here have taken some of the things I have said out of context in attempts to make me look 'not good'.
As I mentioned in the first post of this thread, the purpose of it being a short composed question was to get people's initial gut reaction to the only word being used that is considered (by many) to have a negative context.
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This is probably not a very good approach. Gathering consensus to prove a point rather than (or in addition to) talking to the involved people is a bit dodgy. People don't want to give you an answer because the answer depends on context, and because they don't want to be quoted for some argument they aren't a part of.
The fact that you aren't getting an overwhelming response (and indeed that people are being skeptical) should probably answer your true question.
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