At one point in CD history there was a forum that you could put questions into and one of the CD moderators would take it, clean up the post a little and the post it out under their name. It gave people a chance to post hard questions in a safe manner.
It was removed because it wasn't used. Maybe it's worth bringing it back for times like this.
I try not to get caught up in the political issues around FIRST(*). If I have good advice that may help because it worked for me, I'll PM it. Sometimes I'll post to add some reinforcement to another persons post. I do put my name on them. To some extent I feel for the well respected mentors that others try to drag in. (Hey what would Foster do?) I don't know, if they haven't posted yet then what they would do is keep their fingers silent.
I too have a collection of red/green dots, but after almost 10 years, they are mostly green. (Although just I collected a red one because I was promoting VEX in an all FIRST forum
). The dots don't really matter.
But the longer tail of saying something that has bad implications on your team is an issue. So I'm good with a "burner account" on "My team is imploding due to ..." to get some ideas on how to help. I'm also good with a burner on " I'm a mentor on a team that is having this same problem, here are things we are trying". Remember, posts here don't go away, CD is well searched by Google, so posting things that may hurt your team isn't a good idea.
Not so much of a burner fan for things that are not part of the core robotics. And in grey areas "I'm a roboteer on a team that doesn't know I'm LGBTQ", burner is OK. "LGBTQ people shouldn't do robotics", no burner for them, that is not helpful in any way.
Thanks Madison for pulling all this together to make it a unified thread.
And just a side note, there are only about 10% of the "names" that are names, not pseudonyms.
Thanks,
Foster
(*) vs politics in general. I've seen so many boards go down in flames with the introduction of the current political environment. Thank all of you for keeping the focus here 100% on the robot.