[Ken Leung]

Just a little reminder of the rules:

"Please remember, you are representing not only yourself, but your team as well as what FIRST stands for. Please try to practice gracious professionalism at all times."

When you guys post on the forum, not only are you representing yourself and your team, as well as what FIRST stands for, you are also setting an example to other new members on what is and isn't appropiate to post on the forum. What you said here this year is going to lead to what people will be saying next year, because you will be the ones everyone look up to when they first come in here and see what FIRST people's opinions about everything are.

It's quite a heavy responsibility if you think about it. I remind myself everytime I make a post. It keeps me from being out of line most of the time, and thinking clearly on a subject before I hit the reply button.

It is very easy to click "reply", type 5 words, and post something in a thread... But if it doesn't mean anything to you, or to whoever reading the thread, do you really think its worth spending that 15 seconds clicking and typing? There are lots and lots of really good threads in this forum, and you probably have a lot of good opinions about them... Why not search around a little, and try to join in the discussion instead of just clicking a few threads on top of the forum and post "pointless posts" as others call it?

I am just confused as to why people will even want to use up a part of their time to do something like this. I personally got a lot of work to do, beside FIRST related stuff, especially now that I've been sick for 2 weeks... I never would spend the 15 seconds saying something that really have no meaning to me or to any other people. I hope everyone will realize what their time could've been spent doing. Maybe thinking more about the robot... Or thinking how to help the team in 6 weeks... Or trying to do homework and get more sleep... etc.

Maybe time changes, and the forum isn't what it was anymore... But once a while, that was proven wrong by some really good threads hidden in between the forums.

Always remember... We are here to share, learn, teach, inspire, expose, think, and communicate. If you are doing anything less than any of these, its just not worth your percious time.

Another reminder of advices from one of the greatest posters on the forum:

"1. Make your point concise.
2. Keep your emotions in check.
3. Try to keep your posts from being one big paragraph.
4. If someone provides information that may change your opinion or disprove yours, it's ok to say "yeah, I was wrong". Heck, I still do this... see, I am wrong for not being concise in this point. heh.

Andy B."

I just want to add one more to this:

Think twice before you post.