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Oh, I apologize for making such a long post! It is by no means a good example to look at when you want to make your own post.

I only said so many things in it because I was overwhelmed by the emotions and thoughs that flooded my mind when I first say Joe's post.

And joe, I think you deserve a break from all your hard work ;-). Take care, my friend.

Well said, as always, Ken.

Ken, andy, dj, david and everybody else. I have to agree with all of your comments. I truly believe things will improve, otherwise I wouldnt have agreed to succeed joe. I dont blame joe or carolyn or anybody else for what has happened, because truly I dont think its anybodys fault. Because of the flame wars though there is a new rule in the chat room. Its very simple. Respect others. Dont bash them or disrespect them. Dont insult them behind their back. Debates I am fine with....bash wars Im not. As long as everybody respects this I think things will go very well.
Ashlee

Mabey it's just my 'happy-go-lucky' out take on life or my personal facination with all things fun, but we ARE in the off season. What can we discuss? Noting much. No puropose in talking about the Fisher Price gear racio or is this legal. Sure, some threads were just plain nuts and others should be banned, but don't hold the forums to a higher standard durring times of drought. The season has just begun. New people are signing up. We don't have a championship venue yet, many teams just don't have the money as they did last year. We need to goof off a little, but flaming and other such things is inappropreate.

Joe resigned because of bashing, trolling, and flaming, not quailty, off season goofyness, nor all the things Ken wrote in his novel.

FIRST isn't going down the tubes. Sure, we have jerks, and mabey more than years past, but we're suck between a rock and a really hard place in terms of expansion and quailty.

As for inappropreat posts, threads, and flames, I've posed the greeting and reminder to all CD members in the FIRST General Discusson "Welcome! Hola! Fargomen! Buen Venu! Welcome to Cheifdelphi!" post.

And Mr. Martus, don't be hesatant on clicking the ban button. We need that sometimes (anyone remeber the thread on the Nats where a Candian team member flamed America and it's ideas, that's a good example of where things can go wrong when a jerk posts, but the rest of us take it in stride untill Brandon comes.)

And here's one more idea, mabey to get a better hold on CD, mabey we can recruit some more mods?

maybe.

oh, and
KEN 2004

again kenny ily, its sad to see what this has all come to. If the old FIRST and CD ever come back, someone let me know.

asher

Gee sounds like I joined in at the wrong time!

Oh well, let's clean up this mess.

First of all, ashlee is an excellent person, IMHO, and will probably be a great mod. What more can I say? Though I don't have much to say except she's friendly (not too arrogant), and talks alot!

:D

So we have to do some recuriting, get the word out? It can be done!

This is a sad attitude. Your always going to find people who act rude anywhere you go. You can't just run away from it and you can't change the idiots of the world. :edit: Never mind in chat rooms and message boards you can force the rude people to get along with rules.
The sad fact is that people are making stupid topics that errupt into flame wars. Fournatly I learned quickly not to post in those topics. I feel that politics really shouldn't be disscussed in a robotics forum. It's evil.:(

I've been reading this thread without commenting so far. And, frankly, it's had me very worried. The chat room has had a connection with my team for the past three years. It both shares its name with my team (although the name of the team is changing but I find that to be a non-issue). There also happens to be a Java client that many use to connect to the chat room that is hosted on our web space provided by RIT. It seemed to be something to be proud of. Unfortunately, it now appears that because of the actions of a few, my perception of the chat room is changing. I worry that the actions of some (again, the few) in the chat room will reflect poorly on my team. I really don't want that. I feel that the chat room has been valuable to the FIRST community in the past and I hope that it will be in the future. To that end, I hope that everyone in the chat room can act as mature as you all are.

Matt