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Originally Posted by jar24
So what is the point of even complaining on here? in my fours years apart of FIRST ( correct me if i'm wrong) this site does not affect the actual game manual, or anything in FIRST in that matter so it seems like the logical thing to do would actually complain to someone or somewhere ware you are not just "blowing Smoke"?
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Au contraire!
The discussions on Chief Delphi
are monitored by FRC staff; we know this because quite often a question we CDers are divided on will be addressed early on, sometimes even before Q&A opens. (Also see Frank's "brain in a jar" blog post.) So, we know that what's going on on CD is monitored. A thread like this will at least be looked at, if not acted on. While officially, CD discussions won't affect anything in the game manual or anything else, you can bet that behind the scenes, CD has an effect. (Case in point: the 2011 minibots. TU#1 that year banned a specific class of minibots, better known as "projectiles", despite coming before Q&A opened--there had been a CD thread since Kickoff discussing launching minibots at the targets.)
Second, an official response will do almost nothing except to realign some Safety Advisors' thinking. When is the last time you saw someone observe the "no saving seats" rule? (BTW, I have seen at least one team observe that lately.)
However, that wasn't the point. If public awareness of the issue doesn't reduce the incidences (and increase the number of Safety Advisors whose robot-moving noise requirements are called into question), then maybe it's time to get FIRST to act. But by bringing the issue into the spotlight, more teams are made aware that the shouting of "Robot" is at best annoying and more frequently it's counterproductive. Fewer teams do it. FIRST, the community, can act without FIRST, the organization, acting officially. And when FIRST, the community, acts, they have a much louder presence than FIRST, the organization, just by sheer numbers, though FIRST, the organization, can win by authority of being the organizer and the rule-writers.
Which is why we are trying to bring this issue up.
Oh, and Siri: That text is just about perfect. There might be a few stylistic changes, or spelling/grammar, but those are pretty minor changes if they're even needed.