Just as important as trying not to be one of those people who can't see the forest for the trees, so to speak, is trying not to care too much about them. Becaus

Just as important as trying not to be one of those people who can't see the forest for the trees, so to speak, is trying not to care too much about them. Because there's always going to be someone around to remark on spelling mistakes or taking hyperbole literally. It's just inevitable, and to me the best response has always seemed to be to quietly mock those people behind their backs. ;) As a programmer, I see this phenomenon as related to bikeshedding [1]. Instead of taking in and processing a complicated and interconnected argument, the gut reaction that people have is to find the smallest and simplest mistake they can and attack that. In a similar way, I try not to get too worked up about those reactions either. It's just human nature. [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding