Here's the thing with criticism: If you don't want it, don't read it. It's not hurting you for someone to waste their time typing it for you, and you might learn something - or you might not. Some people never learn, no matter how often or nicely you say it. Ignorance is bliss. Sure, some people don't come here or anywhere else for criticism, or to make an effort to improve their writing. But when you inject yourself for good or ill into a community of writers, you're opening yourself up to the opinions of others, whether they voice them or secretly judge you. I personally spend a lot of time judging people in my head because if your writing is bad, it's not my job to fix it - I didn't come here for that. How many people have bailed on RP because the other person(s) were just terrible beyond repair? The answer is quite a few, even if none of them are around to speak up in this thread at the moment. No one offers genuinely constructive criticism with the intention of being rude, so getting your scummy panties in a twist over the perceived 'tone' of their words is a waste of your time, which is fine, I'm certainly not here to police how anyone wastes their free time. But maybe trading in those 20 minutes of fuming indignantly for 5 minutes of actually absorbing the content of the criticism and deciding if it's worth making an effort to change something about your writing style could be beneficial for your future forays into escapism.