In regards to you receiving comments about supposed mistakes in your stories...Delete them. If something someone says takes the joy out of your writing, get rid of it. Who cares if they thought they were helping? The fact of the matter is, criticism, constructive or otherwise, is never actually constructive if it's not asked for.
I know it can be hard to put those comments aside, and for some reason all the kind comments I receive can be easily overwhelmed by one bad one, but I try to remember: Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice.
Your stories are your own first, and a gift to share with others second. Only a very rude person would point out flaws in a gift, well meaning or no.
That's exactly what I do! Delete them, I mean, even if they've also put in positive commentary along with criticism.
It just got to me because this person in particular said that since I hadn't explicitly stated that I didn't want that kind of criticism, they assumed I was okay with it. And it just got to me like, since when did the default switch from "only give criticism when it's asked for" to "you didn't say you didn't want it so I'm going to assume you do". It's a really weird tonal shift in fandom that bothers me, and I think I might start explicitly saying I DON'T want criticism when I post stuff since apparently that's a thing we have to do now.
