Do you vote for all-star selections?

What is your relationship with NBA all-star fan voting?

  • I've never voted before, and don't imagine I will

    Votes: 25 35.7%

  • I've never voted before, but I'm not opposed, the spirit might move me someday

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • I've probably clicked a few names in the past, but not this year and not often

    Votes: 30 42.9%

  • I usually vote once or twice if I remember, online or on their app

    Votes: 10 14.3%

  • I vote often and early for my guys, and whoever I'm feeling generous to beyond that

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • I take this really seriously, give thought to who's performing best this year, before voting a lot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    70
InstaFace

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On the one hand, it doesn't really matter, and when you're one (or at most a few dozen) votes among millions, it might seem like not a great use of time.

On the other hand, it's a chance to throw some praise on the pile of players you admire, both on your team and around the league. Which seems like it might perfectly fit the sort of fandom that is common around the Port Cellar.

This year was the first year I said "you know what? They're saying votes tonight count triple, or something? Sure, what the hell. I already have an account on nba.com somehow, I'll just click a bit during a commercial break". It gave me a completely disproportionate sense of investment in the results (from "WGAF" to "I hope a few of these guys come through, they deserve it"). I'm curious what the rest of you do.
 
Euclis20

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I'm on nba.com or on the nba app every day anyway watching games, it takes about 20 extra seconds to vote every time. If I didn't have league pass I probably wouldn't vote at all.
 
saintnick912

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I built the voting site in 2000 or 2001, in two days, with one teammate doing the HTML and one designer cutting up the graphics. We ran it on a single Sun workstation in a data center that the NBA had left over from another site. We took tens of millions of votes and I think had less than half an hour of downtime. Plus included some counter measures that shadow blocked a couple of large scale botting attempts.

So I voted that year. I did the FedEx air and ground thing for the NFL around then too.
 
InstaFace

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saintnick912 said:
I built the voting site in 2000 or 2001, in two days, with one teammate doing the HTML and one designer cutting up the graphics. We ran it on a single Sun workstation in a data center that the NBA had left over from another site. We took tens of millions of votes and I think had less than half an hour of downtime.
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That's awesome. The SoSH mafia once again is everywhere.

saintnick912 said:
Plus included some counter measures that shadow blocked a couple of large scale botting attempts.
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Hey look man, getting Latrell Sprewell into the ASG was the only way they were gonna save Jeff Van Gundy's job. He's just trying to put food on the table. :)
 
ElUno20

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When i was a spry yute trying to get Chris Kaman justice, yes.

But not in the last 15-20 years probably
 
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