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As a new lurker on Chief Delphi I guess I should pop in with my opinion. My team and my rookie year was 2012 and I can honestly say CD scared me. This was mostly for 2 reasons, I knew next to nothing (like most rookies) so CD seemed like a giant monster instead of the wealth of information I see it as now, and the layout was incredibly cluttered and confusing. The second point has nothing to do with the current discussion so I'll focus on the first.
As a rookie team we were lucky enough that our head mentor bad been a mentor at another school for 3 years so we were luckily not in the position o f everything being new. That being said obviously some of the students wanted to try and get as much extra information as they could. At kickoff I heard about CD and thought that it would be the place to learn but as soon as I had heard about it I also heard about its reputation. So last year I got on once spent 10 minutes trying to find the forum finally did saw a million subforums got scared and never gave it a second thought till a year later.
So during our rookie year any question I would of asked on CD I just waited and asked another team directly through a friend or through facebook. This year when I came on CD and got acclimated it seemed fairly dead so I end up using it as an archive rather than an active forum.
*typed on my phone on 4 hours of sleep so I'm sorry for any typos and the rambley nature of this post
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