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Originally Posted by Kimmeh
Perhaps we could turn this into a constructive thread where we highlight some of the more prevalent stereotypes (or things that stall a discussion) that we've come across? Use it to see how others see CD and maybe work to change that?
However, I worry that it may become a case of someone saying something like “Ahhhhh, on HOT Team the mentors build the robot, and their coach is annoying.”* and the next 2 pages of a thread repeatedly explaining how none of that is true.
* -Karthik (Effective FIRST Strategies for Design and Competition)
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One positive approach might be to lay out the thread as a point-counter point. No extended arguing in-house, just adding potential counter-examples to "conventional wisdom". If we did it right, it might actually serve to illustrate--and nurture--the non-hivemind side of CD. Something like:
Remark: casters are EVIL
Counter-example: It looks like
93 made finals at the 2002 championship
on a creatively used caster, and
Buzz won the
2001 New England Regional.
That said, I agree with the concerns raised. It's dangerous territory; this is only the way I'd recommend approaching it if we
did keep the thread open.