You are soo right!! It's amusing, though so predictable, and reading their responses as they reflexively pop up in each thread, gets tiring. The players are so predictable too in what they say. It's almost like their own little club where a race ensues to see who will be first to rebut or challenge Chief. The funniest part is that it all happens under the banner of "we don't care about him"! Oh really?!?
Actually the support for Chief really started when the Chaters routinely began chiming in on virtually every Chief post. They still don't outweigh the Chaters in volume of comments, though possibly so in Likes. As someone else here said, if you don't want threads derailed, just put him on ignore. You'll keep your blood pressure in check, but I don't think the Chaters really want to, because they don't want to miss anything he says, or the opportunity to....chime in! lol