[Matt Krass]

First, I want to thank you all, your responses were more enthusiastic than I hoped, and there’s been a noted lack of the aforementioned hostilities. You’ve helped restore some of my faith in these forums.

Now, down to business…
The point of this thread was to bring to light some issues that I felt needed to be addressed, both within FIRST and on these forums. As many have stated in the pits I felt the familiar warm reception to questions and comments, and teams that were very GP and helpful. WPI (190) handed over several little things that saved us without a moments hesitation, whilst Jeff Waegelin in the 830 pit was always dealing with my crazy questions with a straight face on, no snappiness, even when things got really hectic. It’s on of the reasons I came back to FIRST this year and I’m happy to see it’s not gone. Thanks again for your kind words and let’s work together to make these forums, and FIRST as best as we can. I know I’ll be giving out more rep points now when I see GP on the boards, I ask that you all do also, if you don’t already. With positive influences, I’m sure we can improve the situation. I don’t expect perfection, and maybe I’m holding people to standards too high to be fair, but I expect we can all meet them.

Long Live Gracious Professionalism, and long live F.I.R.S.T.

Though I’ve been on these forums for nearly three years, I haven’t shaken things up much, or made any significant posts until recently, and the responses I received made me smile because they’re hard evidence GP is still around, thanks again for restoring my faith in it.

Thanks.

P.S. I’m just as guilty as everyone of skipping a search when in a hurry to post, I’m sure you’ve all done it too, let’s be a little easier on those that don’t search first? Genia’s approach is perfect, answers the questions, points out the search and manages to be tactful and gentle at the same time.