I feel like the answer to most of these questions is "stop asking so many questions".

That's the reason people feel like you're ignoring their advice, why they think you've not looked at the resources they linked, why they feel like you might be a troll and why they think you must just be fishing for compliments... Because you never seem to be satisfied with the advice you're given. No matter how much everyone agrees the advice you were given is solid, or how acclaimed the resources you're linked... you always come back asking for more, and it's often questions that either people already answered, or where the answer is to apply the ideas you should have learned from solving previous problems, or really digesting the past advice, to the new, fundamentally similar problem.

It stops feeling like you're a person making a story who wants guidance on specific points they're stuck on... and feels more like you're a person who is asking questions for the sake of asking questions out of a desire for attention. Then on top of that, because you often respond to somebody's answer with some variation of "no, but that doesn't work for me because [insert way in which your problem is _special_]", it tends to feel like you're trying to modify the question until somebody gives you the answer you want, rather than choosing to take the answer, apply independent critical thought to it, and see how you might apply the general idea to your specific problem.

And then when people start to say they think you're doing that, you shove like... one or two pretty simple pages you made in their face like "Look! Look! See! I made a page! I can't be trolling!" You don't get a parade for making two pages. A lot of us have been making two pages every single week for multiple years. It starts to feel like you want everyone to do the thinking on every slightly difficult thing, and you want people's attention and praise for every little bit of work, and you're asking this in a community of people who make work in a medium that requires a huge amount of dedication, hard work and independent problem-solving.

The vast majority of problems can be solved through some mixture of observing from life, studying the approach of a more experienced creator, experimentation or trial and error, and practice. Always apply those first, and also see if you can apply a solution to a problem you've solved before to any new problem first.

Go and look at how other people have done it, and try doing the thing first. Characters in short comics are pretty much always flat archetypes, because there isn't space for complexity, and the whole thing needs to be a simple concept. I've won national prizes for short comics where the characters were so simple they didn't even have names. It's a question that doesn't need answering, because I can't imagine showing somebody who likes and knows about short comics, a short comic with simple characters and them saying "The characters need to be more complex". It'd be an unrealistic demand, and show a total lack of understanding of how short comics work.

Have you considered printing these questions out and taking them to someone you trust? Someone who knows you in person? Because you seem to need answers to questions that pertain to you and your way of thinking specifically. As previously suggested a tutor would be more appropriate for your writing questions. And the other queries you have would be better addressed by family and friends. We do care and want to help, but these simply aren't things we can tackle as strangers on the Internet.

I agree with @darthmongoose. Sometimes you have to stop asking questions and start exploring. Like the thread you made about "writing like a TV show". I replied to it because I knew the struggle and wanted to help. After realizing my main series wasn't going to fit into the traditional novel mold, I decided that I wanted to write it as a TV show. I only know one professional TV writer and instead of pestering him to help me fix my work, I started learning for myself.

I paid attention to the different styles of television shows out there and how they compared and contrasted. I learned how to craft a smaller storyline while finding ways to tie it into a larger overarching arc. I learned timing, character development, etc. Serialized fiction is just NOW entering the conversation for web writers. I didn't have anyone to ask so dismissing my comments for not knowing your show influences felt like a slap in the face.

Questions aren't bad in of themselves but you have to learn how to phrase your questions specifically to your problem. We haven't read your stuff. We only know what you tell us, so vague questions will get those deconstructed replies that you didn't want.

I think clearly the specificity matters to you, and there may be a problem in the communication side of things.

A lot of the time, the threads are going a bit like:

You: "Is it okay to sit on a chair in this room?"
Person: "Yes, you can sit on a chair."
You: "Okay, but what if it's a green chair?"
Person: "Yes, I said you can sit on a chair, that includes green ones."
You: "Ah wait, sorry, I mis-spoke. I meant blue. Can I sit on blue chairs?"
Person: "Rrgh! I said you can sit on the chairs! Are you trolling me or something!?"

It's like that, but with storytelling or drawing. And it's quite possible that to you, it's reasonable to feel anxious about the specifics... but to other people, it feels like you're not putting thought into the general applicability of their broader advice. You ask if it's okay to have very simple characters in a short comic, and I say, yes, that's fine, then you ask "but is it okay if the character is an effeminate gay character?" because you're worried about being seen depicting a stereotype... but on my end, that's an uncomfortable question that feels like you're putting the responsibility for your decision to potentially do something problematic on me. It's also a very different question, because it's less about characters being simple and more about depicting cultural stereotypes.

If your decision hinges on "am I worried this will be problematic?" you really have limited choices:

1. Change the character. If it doesn't affect the plot at all, then you can make any character anything, so if you're scared of upsetting people, make the character something else.
2. Don't change it and trust that your audience will understand the intent behind your work, that you were maybe drawing from life experience and that you're doing your best to depict things sensitively. Chances are, if you are LGBTQ+ yourself, you don't plan to make an effeminate gay man to mock or to push stereotypes, but out of a genuine wish to show a character like that in an interesting scenario.

And if your follow-up question is "but what if the plot needs that character to be an effeminate gay man?" Then the choice simply becomes "should I tell this story, or change the story?" basically the same choice.

And no matter how many times you ask... those are the two options, and different people will tell you, often emphatically, to pick a different one. There's no gay council who can give you official permission to depict an effeminate gay man with assurance nobody will be offended. Somebody might be offended... but that's always the risk with... basically just making art. The specifics of the question can't really change it.

I don't know if this will help, but in terms of questions I have a lot of similar problems, I'm very sensitive but I need feedback to improve so I try to get feedback in a way that doesn't hurt me nor risk hurting the kind people that do come and give me feedback. I also tend to describe stuff badly and ramble. Despite that I feel like my question thread was really helpful to me and a lot of really nice people came to help me here : https://forums.tapas.io/t/how-do-i-manage-a-shifting-artstyle/75257

I'm not saying it's the best way to do it, but it might give you some leads.

I gave a lot of thought to trying to make the question clear even if explaining the context and stuff takes a while. I also tried to only ask questions other people's opinions would give me some insight on. I did want to ask about plot stuff and how to write x thing or how to dose subtlety and metaphor, but that stuff is not something other people can really judge until it's properly done in the comic and then I can ask for impressions and try and improve for the next pages.

I also framed the questions asking what other people would do in my place. "What would you do if you had my problem?" rather than "How do I do this?". It's small but it prompts people to respond with "I would do this" rather than "you should do this" and the former makes it easier for me to take the useful stuff from the answer without feeling demand rejection. (But that's just a little trick I play on myself to make sure I can properly consider the help people are giving me).

Finally I didn't respond straight away. I took the time to read and reread the answers, digested them and tested a few of the practical suggestions out to see how they look before coming back and answering. Rereading the messages helped me understand some of the things that I had misunderstood the first time + forced me to properly think and consider things even some of the commenters didn't necessarily mean.

A lot of questions should be to help jumpstart your critical thinking about your own work by giving you insight into other people's perspectives or how they get out of a problem you might be facing that might work for you, not to give you a direct answer.

I hope this helps!

Edit: I'm reading the answers after me and I'm seeing another problem: you need to think about your questions more before you ask them. You're not asking the actual question you want an answer to so you're chain-asking things that aren't the same.

Example : you asked if it was ok if characters were simple in a short story.

You did not think beforehand what the answer "yes" or "no" would bring as problems. The real question you were probably asking was:

"I have an effeminate gay character in my short story. Short stories usually have simpler characters. Is there a way that I can write a simple character like that without it seeming like a stereotype?"

I still have qualms with this question because the answer is "yes but you really have to do a lot of work to be around people like that, see their humanity, understand them beyond the surface level, and then breathe that understanding into your character while giving the audience less detail to keep the story short."

This is not a question we can give you a quick fix to.

Homeslice, what people think of your work is completely out of your control. The only thing you can do is put your best foot forward and hope for the best. Quit worrying so much and asking nicvhe and unanswerable questions.