New Members: Fans of Other Teams

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We seem to have had a recent influx of new members and I wanted to take this opportunity to remind new members of our Community Standards:

At Dallas-Mavs.com, we take great pride in building and maintaining a community where diverse, intelligent and respectful sports discussion between members can thrive. The following Community Standards outline both generally and specifically indicates what we feel are appropriate guidelines to preserve the highest quality online experience. We encourage you to read our Community Standards before joining our site. Thanks for doing your part in helping to keep Dallas-Mavs.com a great place for Mavs fans to connect.

Our General Principles:

We expect that all members of Dallas-Mavs.com will behave in a way that’s conductive to the diversity, intelligence and respectfulness of the community. Each of these three general principles is fundamental to the quality of this site.

Diversity – We here at Dallas-Mavs.com are a community of hundreds of fans from different backgrounds and with different perspectives on sports and life. This includes fans of different ages, sex, religions and beliefs. At all times, we expect our members to respect that.

Intelligence – We’re a community with quality standards and we expect our members to make a sincere effort to contribute their thoughts on interesting subjects in a meaningful and respectful manner. Posting messages and otherwise interacting on Dallas-Mavs.com is completely optional; many members often prefer to just read what others have to say. But if you do post, we expect that you’ll be respectful of the time of others by posting meaningfully.

Respectfulness – We require our members to show respect for others. Respecting their person, their time and their opinions – even if you disagree with them. Respect also includes respecting the right of Dallas-Mavs.com administrators and moderators to make judgments and enforce these Community Standards.

Some of you may be fans of other teams and are eager to participate in intelligent conversation. We're right there with you. However, those in violation of the community standards and whose sole purpose is trolling in coming to the board will be banned immediately without prior warning.

Some examples are threads like this:
http://www.dallas-mavs.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29781
http://www.dallas-mavs.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29771
http://www.dallas-mavs.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29715

Be respectful of us and we will be respectful of you.