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Originally Posted by 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.
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Karthik,
If you noticed in my original post, one of the ideas was to disable any new postings. This would serve the purpose of anyone who needs to search for older information.
I originally posted this thread as a sort of Pat-Brandon-On-The-Back for a job well done, and to kind of remind people that there is more to life than chiefdelphi. I did not expect this kind of astounding support for what i see as a semi-absurd idea
It all boils down to this; Would most of us mind if the forums were shut down for a week? nah probably not. Would we miss reading all the chatter that goes on here? sure. Would we live? yep.
As you said in your original post, if you can't make your own time to go out and have fun outside of the computer there is something seriously wrong. But stopping all new posts for a week may have a beneficial impact on the quality of posts around here. People would have time to gather their thoughts or come up with new ideas to improve this community.
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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?
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Just remember that it is the offseason. There is obviously going to be less "useful" discussion around here. Sign on in mid-January and i'll bet you a team shirt the ratio of chit chat to "useful" threads is down. (edited thanks to a correction by Aignam)
Sorry for being so long-winded about this!
Tom