Offering Opinions Online

My recent post about filter icons resulted in quite a few reactions, most of them telling me things I already knew. I struggle with people implying I haven't thought about what they're now kindly offering me as new information.

Yeah been there. What do you do?

Letting things go always feels better than trying to win something that isn't even a competition.

Good point. But does it influence your writing?

I would lose my voice if I tried to optimize my writing around the expected reactions. I'd dumb everything down, argue in every direction, just to be safe. That's just not an option.

I love hearing from and writing to people who read my writing and engage in a good faith conversation.

But sometimes I also just have ignore others.