I hope you don't mind - I'm going to switch the order of your arguments so mine make more sense.
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Originally Posted by bulbajackel
Second problem: can we say Bill of Rights violation? The word robot hasn't harmed you or anyone in any way, allowing organizations to limit our speech will do a lot more.
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Can we not get into the whole Bill of Rights thing? I fail to see how asking people to not yell at each other is a violation of your rights. You're asked not to yell in school - are your teachers oppressing your rights? You're asked to not yell in a courtroom - is the judge oppressing your rights? Maybe we should all just walk around yelling because HEY, WE HAVE FREE SPEECH AND CAN THEREFORE SAY ANYTHING WE WANT!
No. Free Speech (in Canada) is a thing because we feel it's important to be able to express one's opinions. Free Speech does not give you an excuse to annoy other people for no reason. It does not give you an excuse to be (quoting Woodie Flowers) an incompetent jerk. Why am I using this term? Well...
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Let me address this simply, why do you think its rude? I see if its rude if you seen a team yell if the walkways are clear... but in most cases theres a minority doing that.
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Sure, Free Speech says that you CAN yell at people to get out of your way at the supermarket. There might be plenty of people clogging up the aisle, and all you need is a cake for your sister's birthday party that's starting NOW. You were supposed to pick it up earlier, but stuff got in the way, and now you're late. Does this mean it's not rude to yell at people to get out of your way so you can pick up this cake?
No, you're being an incompetent jerk. Incompetent because if you picked up the cake earlier, you wouldn't have had this problem. A jerk because now you're yelling at other people. It's very rarely socially acceptable to yell at anyone, regardless of what you're yelling. In the pits: You're being incompetent because, as several very successful teams have noted, you don't NEED to yell "ROBOT." You're being a jerk because, even though you don't need to, you CHOOSE to. I frankly don't care if your team is heading off to a match. If I'm in my pit, I don't want to hear that.
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In Montreal, there was a team that celebrated each victory by parading their entire team through the pits, making noise and blocking aisles. One time they were blocking my team from queuing for a match. I politely tapped one of them on the shoulder, motioned to the robot, said "Pardon." ... And this whole huge francophone team (Je ne parle pas francais) moved. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that you don't need to yell to make your way through a crowd. People understand that you need to get to matches. If you let them know (politely) what you're doing, they'll get out of your way.