10-28-2025, 10:24 AM
(10-28-2025, 09:04 AM)mvossman Wrote: The simple answer is to avoid the game threads, which is where most of this kind of behavior happens.
It's worse this year than ever, actually, which surprises me (but probably shouldn't).
When things aren't going well, which has been a fair amount of time to this point, the game thread is alive and jumping with negativity. Then, the Mavericks will go on an extended run to make it an actual NBA game, and it's crickets in there for 20 minutes at a time. The game thread for the win against Toronto was one of the deadest I can remember the whole time I've been part of this community. I think we've reached an era where there are more people lurking here HOPING the Mavs are bad so they can complain than there are fans who want the team to do well, and it's just sad.
I'm not sure what, if anything, we can do about this, but I'm really bummed that this community has become so negative.