Yeah, I started once a story just for fun and it got 2,3k followers on RR in a very short period of time. I was pretty excited about it as I didnt expect that so many people will show interest in my little fantasy world. It really motivated me and I am writing stories ever since as a hobby, hoping to improve to the point I can publish my own book someday.
It was all nice and fine, on RR, as my story got more famous. Yet, the haters also started to appear the more popular my story got - and I call them hater because some people felt forced to commend on every chapter about how they want the protagonist to act this or that way.
Anyway, publishing my story slowly became frustrating as time passed because I felt that I had to please the haters as well. Now I see that this mindset was a bit dumb, but at that time I took it to heart and felt emotionally down due to the fact that none of the haters ever explained why they don't like this or that, and just criticized my work in a very, very blunt/mean way.
I eventually took my story down from RR and finished it without publishing it to the WWW so I can have my peace of mind.
Publishing your story on sites like Scribblehub or something simmilar is a good way to improve yourself as an author, as you got a lot of feedback from your readers. But it can also be fairly annoying with all these entitled brats running around that see themselves as omniscient experts.
What I have learned now is that you, as an author, should stay loyal to yourself and write your own shit in the way you like it. There will always be haters lurking in the shadows of their basements, posting negative comments wherever they can, but you will have an even bigger army of fans, and it is the fans that will support you! Even when you manage to appease a hater/troll, they will never support your work because they are envious souls for the most part. Supporting someone else isn't part of their cerebral programming, so it's a waste of time to invest resources in their direction.