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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT

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Originally Posted by Libby K View Post
What a lot of this thread takes issue with is the mindless screaming of ROBOT!!!! without concern for what's around the team.
With all due respect, I think this thread does a lousy job of communicating that.

The title of the thread is "petition to end the shouting of ROBOT." Anything said in a voice loud enough to be heard at many competitions can be fairly considered "shouting," and I don't think there's any argument to be made that using the word "robot" is, per se, an inappropriate way of doing it (if you wish to use other words to supplement it for the sake of manners, that's fine, but I don't think that's such a pressing issue that it deserves its own thread).

Of course, "mindless screaming" of anything is neither useful nor appropriate. But a lot of shouts of "Robot!" are most certainly not that, and pointing that out is a perfectly reasonable thing to do given the title of the thread.

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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe View Post
Just a warning, I know that this practice will be frowned upon at Hampton Roads this weekend. You will be asked to stop and have someone walk ahead of the robot asking people politely to move.
I won't actually be there, but I hope for the sake of all the teams involved that, if this is the case, there is nothing comparable to the chokepoint of that hallway at Greater DC.
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