Hi, Rusaian! Maybe I didn't understand your question correct, but here is what I can tell about myself. I'm a native Russian speaker and it does impress me very much when someone learns Russian as his/her foreign language. I always want and try to help even I'm not a professional teacher and sometimes I can't explain rules, but I'm ready to look up in textbook and help. I find it very interesting and even exciting, also it helps me to understand better my own language. I just love doing it (don't know why) maybe because I liked Russian classes at school. I'm still open to help others with Russian, and hope to find a serious learning partner here for Russian-English exchange :)

There is this tricky part with the number of people you've asked your question. I slightly doubt it is exactly correct to make some general observations basing on 10-100 people you might have asked. Right? It wouldn't impress me for example, but my parents would be totally delighted and amused at the same time.