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Re: NEED HELP FROM ALL US FIRST TEAMS!

You're asking people to blindly support something and refusing to talk anything specific. You're calling out members of Chief Delphi as being "un-GP" for not Like-ing a Facebook page on the vague promise that if they do, they'll somehow be a part of some non-specific viral action that you can't talk about. Take off the FIRST googles for a second and look at this as if someone were presenting this to you as a member of the public. I bet it would look sketchy to you too.

There are many valid reasons to not talk about plans prematurely, especially if they are on the scale you are implying. But one of the tradeoffs of having to keep secrets is that you're going to alienate naturally skeptical people.

My perspective is a little tainted - I'm very aware of multiple non-obvious incentives to go viral as a Facebook page and Youtube channel owner, so I'm naturally guarded toward that sort of thing. I wish you the best of luck in what you accomplish, both virally for FIRST and as a robotics team from Janesville. (I'm actually originally from Clinton myself!)
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