First three: No.
I know I complain about idiot users a lot, but it's not really that bad. Unless it's Mörskom. Then it's bad.
I know I have a bitchy reputation but I am really just like /u/apollodown or /u/Trainwiz, using attitude to deal with dumb shit that comes with popularity. Yesterday I spent ages building a custom oven and adding 30 planters to Thornrock just for ONE USER. Privately. No one would have ever known unless I told you guys here. She had tried to do it for hours and I figured it'd be easier just to add it for her than trying to explain it. It was not the first time, at all. I wasn't annoyed, I wasn't bothered and you know what? It feels DAMN GREAT to help someone and see their gratitude. That's why I make updates and changes to my mods. People have great ideas and they appreciate what I do.
Sometimes I get stressed out because I want my mods to be perfect but I just don't have the skills or "give a shit" needed to do the stuff people want me to. Then I just ignore them because I love modding and I don't want to feel negative about it.
I think I reached a point of no return later last year. I don't give a fuck about (sorry for the term) toxic people and their comments any more and don't get all jimmyrustly over demands and requests. I turned off my Nexus messaging system and the only way to contact me is Reddit/my FB/my website. Helps a lot with filtering garbage.
The only thing that has really gotten to me is when another mod author wrote about my mod in tumblr, raging about how dumb it was and then a bunch of other authors jumped on the hate bandwagon going on about how I'm a lunatic who got someone banned for "copying my furniture layout" and I'm angry at users (because apparently writing in red letters means I'm "angry and raging") for telling me my character named Doge is not real Doge. Yeah. Because I needed to hear that about 50 times and that would magically change a husky model into a shiba inu.
But that's tumblr for you, I guess?
For everyone's information: The guy copied assets and rooms directly from my esp and used my bsa as a resource warehouse and then didn't credit the original modder's resource creators, uploaded a copy of my mod (A thief house modelled after my thief house, kinda) with MY esp on his download file. The copying was so obvious that I got him banned. Then he apologised and I was fine with it, because I hate being hateful. But he was permabanned from Nexus since he had created alt accounts. I got him back there. I helped him return to Nexus because he is an amazing modder and his mods would really be missed. I talked to Dante and told him they should let this guy back on Nexus and that he had learned his lesson.
We are FRIENDS now. Good buddies. We are collaborating, sharing knowledge and assets. So much for me being a hateful bitch who gets people banned for no reason at all.
The incident made me realise what was getting to me. Constant fear of being copied and people taking credit for something I made. I decided I was SO FUCKING DONE with witch-hunting "thieves" and trying to defend the modder's resource authors and getting shit for it. Since September all my work has been free game. And since then, NO ONE has copied me. People use my resources, sure, but no copycatting. Go figure.
Ah, felt good to get that out of my system.
Dumb idiots who ignore mod documentation though.. Still kinda annoy me. How do these people manage to breath and survive day-to-day?