I asked this question and immediately self-answered it. The intent of the self-answer was to explain the socio-cultural reasons why I believe the ukulele has garnered its reputation. In explaining this, I brought up an anecdote from my own personal experience. In order to suggest that advanced education for the instrument was hard to come by, I mentioned that I could not find any good resources for learning it, and in doing so I had to claim to be at a relatively high skill level at the instrument. You can read this yourself linked below, but that's what my intent was when bringing up my own experience.

[The answer in question](https://music.stackexchange.com/a/108949/37992) (hehe)

I found myself facing some criticism, though, from some who suggested that this question was insincere and that I was simply using the question and self-answer for the purpose of bragging about my skill.

Personally, I don't think that was my intent at all, and I believe that there's a deep question and discussion behind my post. After all, I was establishing my own credibility, surely a time-honored practice on SE that I would say is completely necessary in many circumstances. I feel as though this has to be an extremely common tactic here to write high-quality answers here, no?

**But I want to get the community's input on this.** Was I in the wrong here? Does the post truly come off as vain? Is there anything I should change about my answer?