If it makes you feel any better, there are currently 23 upvotes on the comment you linked to, even though its score is -3. So there are a lot of people who are

If it makes you feel any better, there are currently 23 upvotes on the comment you linked to, even though its score is -3. So there are a lot of people who are ready to give you a hearing, if you want that. It's true that users here can sometimes behave like a mob. But there are also a lot, possibly even a majority, who can be convinced by cogent arguments regardless of who they come from. Whereas if you give up and get mad, you lose those as well.