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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?
(I do in general tend to have more pessimistic beliefs than average, which at least on average happens to be on the right side of the bias. I also don't hesitate suspecting that people don't know what they are thinking or doing and why, even if they explicitly describe what they think they think. And I'm more willing than usual to risk offending people to their face, where I believe I can get away with it. So I'll point out if I think something is wrong, where many people would prefer to change the topic or agree politely, for the flaw might be small and the tradeoff between keeping the flaw intact and being impolite is ruled against the improvement. This could account for much of the difference in impression from my comments and others' comments.)