Yesterday, 02:07 PM
(Yesterday, 11:22 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: At some point, negativity only serves to breed more negativity. We're not going to be that type of community. We lost some folks because of the team's actions over the past 9 months, no doubt, and those who are still here need a place to "vent," sure. But, we're starting to lose more folks because of the toxicity and redundancy of the discussions here, and that's something we can control. If the thread dies, it dies, but there are some for whom the negativity is like oxygen, and those people need to go away. I think that those individuals will literally never stop looking for the next thing to complain about, and the next thing after that. This thread might have to be locked to save us all from those people. Or, we could just ban them and be done with it, I suppose, but we're bending over backwards trying to avoid that.
To be clear, they have been warned, and know who they are. We're not in the business of censoring any actual thoughtful, reasonable contributors, no matter what their opinions might be.
But, at some point, in order to heal we all need to turn the page. I'm sure these topics will never completely die away from Mavs fan culture. Someone compared the situation to the Nash thing the other day, and I think that's a good comparison, at least when imagining the future role of a topic on this forum.
Again, this feels like forcing things on folks, rather than solving anything.
Let folks have their own space for negative thoughts, and direct it elsewhere rather than allowing it to spread elsewhere.
There is middle ground between forcing things and allowing negativity to takeover the entire board.
But it feels that you have already made your decision about it.