Seek approval? Negative. If people I play with throw a positive comment my way, that's cool, who doesn't like that. If they don't, I still sleep fine and know what I am and what I am not, and I am 100% fine with that.
I will answer this from another angle depending on how exactly the OP meant it........
However, I do think there are a whole lot of folks that seek significant external validation, on the forum, elsewhere on the web, YT, etc. They may call it something else but clinically they are seeking external validation. That isn't a negative necessarily, unless they let it become too large an element of their self-worth.