Ambassadors?

I had an unpleasant experience dealing with an ambassador here and it made me think about what is a true ambassador and what role is that designation.

An Ambassador is an official envoy.

A person who has taken the responsibility to serve.

The incident that led to my decision to post this was a mistake I made by posting in haste without foresight on my part to prudently edit and proofread. I had included in the post a link to my personal email. My Bad.

I received what I considered to be a rather rude public comment to remove the post immediately which took me by surprise and I of course complied and deleted the post. Then my writing privilege was revoked. What?... Really? I had been censored for my mistake and I had to discover that I needed to contact Kyle or Carson to let me back in school.

My immediate feeling was embarrassment and ridicule by my peers. Quite frankly I was angry.

I chose to see this as a learning experience and that everyone here is a teacher and a student.

We all need to remember that we are here to learn and sometimes teach.

My experience could have been handled a lot differently with a simple PM telling me I goofed. and broke a big rule about spam. Then offering help in making the post comply with rules. It would have been a more meaningful and considerate form of assistance.

Something I would expect from an Ambassador.

This is a haven from spam and I am grateful that this platform secures that.

I would love to see pay it forward attitude maintain prevalence here. I have had lots of unsolicited help about how to write an article from WA members and I am eternally grateful.

This experience has benefitted me in a renewed interest in writing and working on my projects so it served a greater purpose as well. It broke me out of my sorry ass self-indulgence

Let us all remember that we are a family and in a safe place and our job is to help each other without personal gain.

I also realized that I don't really give a damn if anyone reads what I write. I choose not to let it be personal. So I think it is time to write some stories.

As the late great Will Rogers said:
"It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human."

Thanks and I hope this finds y"all well.
Steve

P S The aircraft pictured is the North American P51 that helped win WW2