User blog comment:NocturnalDelusion/Patching Things Up/@comment-1759824-20120429021151/@comment-893709-20120429090624

How is that statement ironic? You can hardly ask me to look in the mirror, and call my comments baseless. I will openly admit that towards the beginning and middle of my work, I was quite controlling and didn't permit for much user input on my projects. Yet this is exactly what I'm warning you away from. When you plan things in the background and don't let people in, they think there's either nothing there or that you're purposefully hiding it from them and that leads to negative consequences.

Also, isn't the point of commenting on what you wrote above expanding upon it? You make it sound as if that's a bad thing. I am not psychic and so you can't expect me to know what you already know, and what you may know others may not know.

Although you didn't literally write "I" throughout the blog, what I'm talking about is the subtext, the manner in which the blog comes across regardless of its wording. Your example about how you have developed these ideas yourself and then presented them is exactly what I'm talking about. Towards the latter half of my Bureaucratship, I worked to ensure that everyone in my department played an active role in what was going on; allowing them to build upon my ideas and present their own. You ask for everyone's help, yes, but with creating your vision and not necessarily including theirs. At least, that's how I interpreted it, and that's what usually happens. People say they will step forward, and that they're eager to work on projects, but when the time comes very few ever do, and even fewer follow through to its end.