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Originally posted by Jon Lawton
Actually, *any* rules questions that do not have a definitive answer ought to be posted there. The forums here on ChiefDelphi are absolutely *not* authoritative when it comes to the FIRST rules. The only way to be sure you get the rule clarification you need (provided your question really *is* about an ambiguous rule), is to post on those FIRST forums.
And the forums do "work." They are moderated... your questions will not show up until FIRST has added an answer to them. This is much, much, better than last year's forum system. I just hope that FIRST remains consistent on their judgments this year.
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Thanks - I did realize where I was posting (ChiefDelphi) but this "Thread" is about the "FIRST" Q/A forum.
ChiefDelphi is a wonderful venue to share information/rumors but it is not official - I think most everyone knows that.
At the Kick-off FIRST encouraged us (teams) to use the Official FIRST Forum to post questions. The problem I'm running into is that the questions aren't being posted when asked in three of the Official FIRST forum areas.
The EDUrobotics portion of the Official "FIRST" Q/A forum allows you to post questions and begin threads.
The "Game, Rules, and Administration" portion of that same site (The Official FIRST Q/A forum) is NOT allowing you to post questions or begin threads.
My concern is that if FIRST waits to post the questions until they have an answer - they (FIRST) will continue to receive the same questions thousands of times because we (Teams) don't know if the question has been ask yet.
That's a lot of posts that someone at FIRST is going to have to sort through that they probably wouldn't have as many if the forum posted questions as received. Again, we (those who read) will know if our question has already been ask.
When FIRST gets the answers they then could post the questions and answers on the update portion of the FIRST website - under team/document updates.