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Originally Posted by Karthik
This quote really sums up my feelings on the topic, but I'll elaborate.
I'm one of the few people who voted against the Chit-Chat forum.
CD over the years has become one of the best resources in all of FIRST. People can count on CD for the answers to all their FIRST related questions. There's a wealth of experienced engineers and professionals who can help you with all sorts of problems.
I firmly believe that eliminating the chit-chat forum will help keep this site as such a valuable resource.
There are plenty of other online forums on the web for people to kill time and have fun. Since when did ChiefDelphi become an entertainment vessel? The point the Ken is bringing up is that many people who come here for technical information get turned off by all the nonsense in chit-chat. Many mentors do not read CD, because they see it as being too juvenile. The chit-chat forum kills a large degree of professional that this site tries to maintain.
By eliminating the Chit-Chat forum, things would become a lot more serious around here, and we would gain many new readers and posters with various new insights and information, which would make CD a much better resource. Sure, we wouldn't be able to have a lot the fun little threads that we've all come to enjoy (and yes, despite me sounding like a grinch right now, I'd miss a lot of it too). But there's no reason that these discussions couldn't occur on another board not hosted by ChiefDelphi.
I'm not saying that everything here needs to 100% business-like, but I do believe there needs to be some sort of professionalism. My rule of thumb is that I don't post anything here that I wouldn't normally be saying in a FIRST team meeting. For example, I rarely in the middle of my team meetings say "Who would you rather vote for, Bush or Kerry?". I'm still willing to joke around, but it's important to stay on topic, and in my opinion the topic is FIRST.
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I agree with some of what you say, but on the other hand, if people are coming looking for technical information, they should never see the chit chat forums.
Like myself and others said earlier, if chit chat goes away, the forums will just be swamped with off topic posts right and left. At least now they're mostly in one isolated place. The moderator's jobs would become a whole hell of a lot harder if they had to deal with cleaning up pointless threads in every sub forum.
Cory