Comment by davidscolgan

One that you can certainly do is to be one of the voices of positivity and gratitude.

If I enjoy or benefit from something someone has released into the world, I've started trying to send them an email of thanks.

Many times I've gotten responses back, and they are always really grateful for the support. As a hopeful creator with a small but growing following, I've gotten a few of these myself and they really are motivating.

I generally make it a point to never criticize anyone online, since they probably know everything they are doing wrong acutely well and don't need me to tell them again.