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Re: F4 - Connect (The new way to get help)

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Originally Posted by Aidan Cox View Post
It's been established that it's not a novice group of students that are answering. Students can provide helpful and knowledgeable answers to other students. That said, I would be interested to know the percentage of correct answers to incorrect, as well as question-to-answer time length, because that's really what's important if you want to compare and contrast it heavily to Chief Delphi's resources.

When it comes to the safety of the students, I would like to see some of the more personal ways of contact taken off the list of ways to receive answers. Things like a CD PM or email are much more safe and professional medias than phone and texting.
Thank you, we'll look into getting some absolute statistics. We're thinking of also having a segment at the beginning each regular F4 show that has some of the questions and answers on it (with permission, of course) so that others can hear about them.

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Originally Posted by Steven Smith View Post
To the OP:

I won't go through and echo every comment, but the ones regarding privacy and duty to report are worth heeding though, and a "disclaimer" does not absolve you of everything legally. Even if it did, if the net effect of the poor advice or privacy breach was a student being left in a dangerous situation or making a poor decision, the damage is still done. Mentoring is a skill in and of itself, and we all learned by observing and working with other mentors, bouncing ideas off "more senior" mentors when our knowledge falls short. I would encourage you to continue to do the same.

Regardless of your experience starting the F4 Connect community, I would always encourage people to first look at building up an existing platform before attempting to create something new from scratch. Whether intentional or not, every attempt to improve an existing platform by creating a new invariably fragments a user base more. Chief Delphi is likely not going anywhere soon. If you want to improve the dialogue in a shared mentor/student forum, you can do so by preempting posts with well worded answers to that new member that doesn't search before posting. I personally believe a better solution to the problem (which again, I agree exists) is for students like yourself to encourage students to join CD, and to do your best to provide feedback, even when there is a chance someone may disagree with it.

Either way, best of luck. Maybe as you suggest, you can use it as a way to drive students to existing resources, or to help coach them as they join the larger FIRST community and CD.
Thank you. As I posted earlier, we're trying to be very conservative with F4 Connect. Posting on Chief, contacting Senior Mentors, contacting regular mentors who know what they're doing are on our list of places to direct students, either in companion to or as a replacement to talking to a student.
I think we can all agree CD is a scary place sometimes. Connect can also serve as a place to help students join the community and overlook the occasional anger/rants here.
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