[Karthik]

Okay, I going to go off on a bit of rant here. Sorry...

The ChiefDelphi forums are more than just a place for people to kill time and engage in some chit chat. Over the years this board has evolved into one of the most useful educational tools in all of FIRST. You need information on past games? Search the forums. You're working on an off season project and need help with your transmission? Search the forums. If your search doesn't turn up what you're looking for? Post a message, there's hundreds of experienced engineers here who are willing to help.

There are a lot of people who work very hard to keep these forums useful and educational. The people who handle the moderated threads, the people who run UFH. These things are assets to the entire community.

I'd hate to see these things halted for a week, just because a bunch of people don't know how to manage their time, and can't pry their sticky hands away from their computer for more than 15 minutes at a time. You don't need Brandon to shut down the site so you can go out and play.

Maybe this is unrelated, but it seems to me that over the past while, these boards have become a lot less informative. There's been way too much focus on inside jokes, personal projects and chit-chat, and not enough on actual information. There was a time when I came here, I knew I was going to find lots of insightful discussion. What happened?

I'm not saying there isn't room for fun and games here, I'm just saying that maybe we should step back and look at why these forums exist.