Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[SleepingHero]

For half a second I thought you were making a serious proposal.  Then it devolved into yet another snarky attack on anyone who dared say something (anything) positive about the Mav's in recent weeks.  The real answer to all of your "why not talk..." questions is easy.  It will be met with posts like this.     

Even if you somehow lived up to your "promise", I have no confidence others will follow suit.  This place is an absolute beating to read.  Somehow the biggest troll (being ignored by many) hasn't been banned yet and one of the biggest contributors to constructive conversation on this board just had a post deleted?  That's incredibly short sighted.  BTW, if we aren't going to ban this guy, could we at least stop quoting him.  Ignore works on posts, but if you guys keep quoting him then he's impossible to ignore.  Stop feeding the obvious troll.

At some point, some of you have to decide what you really want.  This used to be a place known for intelligent basketball conversation.  It has become an echo chamber.  The problem with echo chambers is the people who want to think through issues with more depth (or talk about something other than Luka) will just leave (or be run off).  It's death by a thousand cuts.  Trying to contain this "therapy" to a thread or two would actually be a helpful start.  

You aren't really arguing with anyone.  Show me the post where someone said "way to go Nico, that was awesome".  All you are doing is making this a miserable place to be.  Its maddening and it crowds out reasonable conversation.  Are you more concerned about venting and proving to the world how right you are or are you more concerned about having a decent place for good basketball conversations going forward.  If we insist on the former, we will eventually lose the later.  

If a tree falls in just two threads, but no one is around to read it, does it really matter?

I appreciate this constructive critique. I will make a forum announcement later to say ALL Luka posts be contained in this Luka thread. Further I will unstick this Luka thread from the main page. 


I don’t want this place to delve into an echo chamber. I think we are all dealing with an unprecedented moment that has quite literally never happened in the history of the NBA. I don’t think it’s unreasonable some people are still wildly negative about this franchise nearly a month later.


But I’ve read your words, I agree with them. I want this place to have a better conversation. On the whole though, those with rational, more reasonable things post less and less frequently, and we are left with emotional reactions. 


And if I am asked by the more reasonable crew to delete these emotional reactionary posts, well what are we left with? I suppose I am asking everyone to be the change we want to see, rather than constantly complain about it.

Also as someone with he ability to modify and delete posts, I don’t know what you are referring to when you said one of the biggest contributors got their post deleted. I didn’t do any thing like that. Please let me know what happened so that I can look into that.


Finally, I do this moderating thing for fun. The Mavs are fun for me. I don’t get a dime doing any of this. I am trying to cultivate a place where we can have reasonable discussion. But I am no expert. I apologize you feel like this place is trending in the opposite direction of where you want it to be. Bear with me and KL. We’re trying. 

Until then, let’s try and be that change. Thank you for making a nice constructive post.