Please, do not do this..

Yesterday my first platformer project that I released got rated as demon and somehow ended up being the most played level in globed at this moment, which was not expected at all (image 2-3)! Unfortunately these are all the good things about this.

I know I don't make perfect levels, and none of us also don't. Even though I got some playtesters for my level, the 10th room and autoscroller section ended up being pretty unbalanced and harder than the rest, leading to people getting upset and finding it less enjoyable. This happened because I am pretty inexperienced with creating platformers and not being sure of the difficulty because of my high skillset.

(images 4-9) Because of this, my level got a lot of hate comments with most of them just being straight up toxic and insulting rather than being helpful, some of them harassing me and hoping I would quit creating or die, which even led me to closing private messages. Many people went out of their way just to dislike my post and positive or constructive comments while liking the hateful ones to make them top comment. This is very demotivating and soul crushing for me and makes me question if I should really create anything at this point. I later updated the level and nerfed the ending everyone was so angry about, but the damage was already done and despite of this, I still keep getting these types of comments.

I know I am not the only one experiencing this, I have seen other people also being in a similar situation like Split72 who even got a dedicated video for this on Daily Dose of GD and I am deeply sorry for anyone who also had to go through this. Even despite of DDOGD's video pretty much nothing has changed about this.

I've asked other people on discord on what I should do and all they say is "Just don't listen to them and ignore". But that is very difficult considering most of the comments are like this, and the answer just seems wrong to me. These are real people sitting behind their screens harassing someone and sending hateful comments on the internet. We need to together stop being such assholes and be respectful to others and remember that these are human beings who wanted to have fun in the editor and share their work. While every level is not perfect and some moments can be annoying, we still need to actually treat the creator like a normal person and give constructive criticism about the things you want to point out without being toxic or hateful. Please don't be like these people.