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Vladimir, I really do appreciate corrections. As you've seen, I update posts in response to them.
It's just that if you say 100 negative things to me in a row without saying a single positive thing, I start to get the impression that you think everything I write is bad, and I should stop writing. (If you doubt my impression, scroll through your last 100 comments that were replies to me.)
That's why I hope to gain an accurate impression of people's reaction to my work - so I can decide whether to keep writing.
If I get nothing but negative feedback from people or from a particular person, then I have to take guesses as to whether this is because (1) the vocalized feedback presents an accurate picture of their assessment of my work, or whether it's because (2) their vocalized feedback does not present an accurate impression of their assessment of my work (that is, they generally appreciate my writing), but they decide to only vocalize negative comments and never (or rarely) vocalize positive comments.
Does that make sense?
You may need to check your priors.
Do Mr. Nesov's comments seem negative in general, not just to you? It is worth checking. How does he normally reply to the type of topics you cover? Maybe (apparently) being from the well known land of pessimism affects his style and you interpret a comment as negative when it is not meant to be so?
FWIW, I always click on your posts, though I rarely have anything to contribute.
Yes, though not always.
...at which point I should restate that I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Nesov's intelligence, rationality practice, and contributions to this site.