[Katy]

Most of what I believe makes a good post has already been addressed in this thread so I am going to skip the bullet points on that end no matter how much joy they bring.

However I think there are more sides to the "why" we need good quality posts. Obviously bad posts can be very annoying but also we are eating up Chiefdelphi resources. "Bad posts" should not be present on Chiefdelphi in the same way that we should not have "bad logins." I think this is an issue that goes hand in hand with bad posts and one that has not been addressed yet as much. When I check the main page at this very moment I see 141 users on the board. 16 of them are spiders so there isn't much we can do about that. However the rest break down to be

1 - Announcements
16 - General Forum
1 - Rumor Mill
2 - Career
16 - Robot Showcase
5 - Technical Discussion
4 - Programming
1 - Control System
1 - Pneumatics
4 - IT
1 - Championship
1 - Regional
1 - Off Season
6 - FIRST Related Organizations
9 - Chit-Chat
1 - Televised Robotics
1 - FIRST in the news

That...unless my math is terrible...is 71 users. It is not very likely that 53 users decided to move to a new forum exactly as I hit my refresh button.

Considering the new announcement about having to limit access to the board to 300 users I think we should all start making an effort to sign off and leave the site alone when we wander away. 1/3rd of the people here wasting resources is too much. That isn't counting people who have just left Chiefdelphi running in a specific forum while running off to eat dinner. I really do not believe that a faster time before accounts are automatically logged off is the answer, especially in a league centered around Gracious Professionalism. I just think that when we are talking about using Chiefdelphi resources in a non-constructive manner we should consider all ways me might error and work to correct them all.