48MPHSlapShot

voicing your opinions are fine, doing it with disrespect to players, coaches, managers and other fans, isn't. if a fan is negative all the time, i don't call him a fan, just someone who believe, their opinions are the only truth to be known. if we want our opinions listened to, we have to be prepared to listen to other's opinions too. it is the law of the hockey puck. 

48MPH..There are so many trip-wires within the whole matter..can become a neverending can-0-worms(Chef Boyardee-like).

How to seperate one's ego from our own treasured opinion? The bigger the sounding board, the more likely you'll try to alter your insights to the tastes of an audience. Does one become Sybil if they constantly pre-edit their instincts & subsequent blatherings?

THEN there's that nasty lil' Dunning/Krueger effect!

IMHO, how we communicate has prob been altered(too rapidly) by the pace of exponentially-changing tech. Not sure it's entirely healthy?

Within the context of sports fandom..it's likely exacerbating the category of these communication-catastrophes!(sorry if I digress)...

Anyone who posts based upon what they hope others will either like or won't like are both in need of a break from the internet.   Your opinion is yours - make it that way.   If your opinion isn't popular or is (either way), take that for what it is versus worrying or labeling it.   IF you find yourself rethinking your position after reading other opinions, that is not only fine but admirable as long as that is based upon genuine realization of a point you may have missed and not just an attempt to conform.