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Originally Posted by David Hoff
I originally decided to stay out of this debate but after I had read through most of these post I still can not find one reason why there should not be a chit chat forum. Having it does not hurt anyone in anyway.
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Mike Aubry (forgive me if I've forgotten how to spell your name correctly) wrote:
Our moderators do an awesome job of monitoring this section, but even so, this is a difficult forum to justify. You see, it only takes one bad post to cause me (lead from Delphi on this team) to have headaches and potentially phone calls from the higher ups at Delphi. I explain that we are continuously monitoring the website - but - if it gets out of control, we won't only lose the Chit Chat forum - we potentially could lose the entire chiefdelphi website.
What more reason do you need? The inanity of chit-chat will potentially hurt both the people who post and the people who use the site as a resource without participating.
I'm not terribly interested in pursuing this discussion, or any discussion here, for that matter. I don't, however, believe the problem is that the chit-chat threads exist. I believe the "problem" is that FIRST is a lot bigger than it used to be and that accessibility has lowered the caliber of its participants.