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I'm happy to slow to a stop if needed, I did a few days ago going across tooting bec on the shared path, was a todler barely able to stand and walk out of his pram having a stagger about but that's about as safe a place as he could.
Most people if you do slow right down then feel embaressed that they are an obstruction so say sorry then I just reply to reasure them it's no trouble at all and ride off. Some even if you slow down will still spout something about dangers but I just ignore those ones.
Can't understand why you would ride around advertising that you are a danger to others, just correct your riding style.
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I was in Burgess Park yesterday, and slowed right down in that little underpass behind a couple who were walking same direction, they had a couple of little kids on scooters nearby. Someone cycling the other way, as she passed said "It's so dangerous!" as some kind of admonition that they should let their children play in the path. I mean, clearly they weren't planning on spending all their time there, they were just passing through, and the "danger" was the cyclist! Y'know, you could just make yourself less "dangerous", slow down a bit more, call out to the kids. And then one of the parents retorted too. I just see it as totally unecessary bad feeling, and it reminds me so much of when you're on the roads and someone in a large vehicle tells you "it's so dangerous!"...