> For X number of people that hold an opinion on you, 33% will support you, 33% don't care, and 33% will dislike you. 1% of the opinions may change you<p>I've had my fair share of 15-minutes of fame online. I will tell you that 80% of people don't care and the 20% of people who do either really love your stuff or constantly sling shit at you for no reason other than envy or to prove you wrong.<p>You do get these 1% life-changing gems though where someone will email or message you saying you changed their life in some way. They always outweigh the trolls.<p>On-top of that, developers and software/tech types are just generally hard to please. Especially when it comes to community things and when they feel said community is being "threatened". People would get very territorial over meetups that I created for similar dev groups and provide similar feedback when they would hardly ever show up nor help pay for any of the pizza/swag. Lots of entitlement for the spectators vs. those who are actually in the arena.