Caring about attention is fine: If you repeatedly mention the numbers your submissions, wall posts etc. pull, you care about the attention you're getting. It gets annoying as soon as you claim you do not care about it, while still clearly iteratively mentioning and talking about the numbers you pull. If you care about attention, just admit and accept that you do; there's literally nothing wrong with doing so. Trying to convince others you do not care, while you talk about said attention repeatedly is what's annoying, not that you want the attention in the first place. This is not to encourage attention-seeking which will also get annoying, but moreso that it's fine to subtly or remotely care about how well your stuff does, and that admitting to such is definitely better than constantly saying you don't care while you clearly do.

Caring about attention is fine: If you repeatedly mention the numbers your submissions, wall posts etc. pull, you care about the attention you're getting. It gets annoying as soon as you claim you do not care about it, while still clearly iteratively mentioning and talking about the numbers you pull. If you care about attention, just admit and accept that you do; there's literally nothing wrong with doing so. Trying to convince others you do not care, while you talk about said attention repeatedly is what's annoying, not that you want the attention in the first place. This is not to encourage attention-seeking which will also get annoying, but moreso that it's fine to subtly or remotely care about how well your stuff does, and that admitting to such is definitely better than constantly saying you don't care while you clearly do.