I think the point is that you'll get a lot further with a polite request than just sitting around brewing about it and then posting your complaint on a message board - not that guests are "responsible" for managing the CMs.
Nonetheless, this is a message board, and the poster was posting a message.
If you think that this is a pervasive, policy issue, then make your complaint to management.
Maybe the OP did. I know I have, and so have other regular posters on this board. Again, this is where we discuss such things.
If you think that it can be chalked up to human error, then make a polite request to the offending CM.
Again, the CMs do not hotwire the vacuums and sneak them out of the vacuum barn every night. It IS a policy issue.
Regardless, the op said nothing about blaming the CM. The blamed the "stupid vacuum cleaner" and asked why MK was p'ing him off. Nothing aimed at a CM.
Because if guests don't point out that something is a problem, then Disney will not know. They can't know what they don't know, they need us to help them understand that this is not acceptable.
Again, many have. Still, that doesn't preclude anyone from being able to post about the problem here.
I know, an argument can be made that Disney should know better than to run vacuums during the entertainment, but this is a company you're talking about. It is not perfect, and it never was, despite the nostalgia of those who believe it otherwise.
Nobody said it ever was perfect, and yes, they should absolutely know better. Yes its a company, a company run by people who do understand the impact, but either don't care or have made the judgement that the impact is not important.
Does anyone even remotely agree with me about the quality of the current guests attitude toward park cleanliness?
I hear some people say guests litter more now, and others say its no worse than it ever was. (Its funny how some who say guests were cleaner in the old days accuse others of falsely believing Disney was better in the old days. It seems that subscribers to the "good 'ole days theory" like to apply it selectively...but I digress)
Either way, I don't care. If guests litter more now, then Disney needs to find a way to deal with it without penalizing guests who are trying to enjoy Disney's offerings. If that means bringing out an extra guy with a dustpan, so be it.
Do I think guests who litter need to be smacked around a bit? Sure. There's no excuse for it. I know I don't do it, and would say something to anyone in my party who I witnessed doing it.
That makes it even more frustrating when somebody tells me the reason I have a vacuum cleaner roaring through my Disney home videos is because some lout from Philly dropped his hot dog wrapper on the ground.
It can be addressed without bringing out Disney's 28th Mechanized Vacuum division.