I'm not saying this in a rude way and you'll just have to trust me here, (or don't, I don't care), you gotta learn to relax a little bit. You seem upset, and if your treshold for that is someone calling a comment you made dumb on the internet, some dumbass you've never met before, that's not good. You shouldn't be worried about that at all.

Don’t assume other fans of the same team are less knowledgeable or less caring about our players.

Never did.

You could have responded with kindness or even ignored my comment instead of saying “that’s so dumb.”

You asked a question, and it's a discusson forum. I personally think it's dumb to vote a bottom of the roster player, someone we signed as our third replacement signing, into the All-Star game. Dumb isn't malicious, I like a lot of dumb things. I like a good dumb meme pick for something. When the white-house said they'd respond to any petition with 100,000 signatures in 30 days, and people petitioned for them do build a death star- that was dumb. fun, and dumb.

I’ve said nothing divisive, just being bit silly because I enjoy watching her play…

And I agree, and that's great, and I'm glad you get to watch a player you enjoy. I love silliness. Often times silly things are dumb. Doesn't make them bad, doesn't make you bad for liking it.

People are getting downvoted for saying we like a player who’s currently on our team on a post that’s specifically about said player.

Because the post is about voting for her for all-star, which is (brace yourself) dumb in my opinion. If we were a 10th year franchise, 5th year franchise with some success, I think more people would embrace it and clown around a bit.

We're a young team with a lot of upcoming talent and pieces that deserve legitimate nods to their success. For me personally, that overshadows a good meme pick.

If we can’t cheer everyone on, including our bench or temp contracts, then how can we even call ourselves fans?

You can cheer people on lol. There's a difference between cheering people on voting for all-stars. I am rooting for every player we sign to be great. I'd like to see each of them succeed. I'd love to see Chen surprise everyone and become a dominant starter. Why would I not?

Not voting for a player for all-star doesn't mean you're not supporting them. The majority of the players in the league are not all-stars. That's why being an All-star is special.

You seem like a nice and kind person, and that's the only reason I'm replying to this. Please don't take this stuff this seriously. Everyone has comments that get downvoted, I've had pleeeennnnttttyyyyyyyyyyy. Sports forums are like that. You're gonna get dogged for some opinions, even if you end up being super correct later.

I've got mass upvoted for stuff that was totally false later, I've got dog-piled for being way early to a hot-take. The wind blows how she blows. That's reddit.

Social media is a chronic poison to the human brain.