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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
Daviddavid is one of several new accounts created in the last 30 days making unsupported accusations of non-specific malfeasance on the part of FIRST officials. Since this is replicative of at least two other threads that have been infested by this anonymous posting activity I would like to ask the mods to shut down this thread and (please) look into whether or not there is an ongoing violation of the prohibition against multiple anonymous accounts. The other accounts I suspect were created just to parrot the same thing are "JeffJ," "Mary," and "Chicago1st."
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Rick, I checked the "members" listing of ChiefDelphi. There are currently 300 pages of pages of members with 30 or less posts, most of them with less than 10 posts and who are annonymous according to you. I counted 50 members on a page, that means you have about 15,000 members who should be moderated, removed, questioned or I guess just not listened to. There are thousands of members without last names, without team affiliations and so on - either they are all annonymous or they aren't, but don't be hypocritical. If you want a new rule saying everyone must use their full name, address, phone number and have a background check, fine - but don't just call out people who are voicing critical opinions you don't agree with or don't want to believe. Ever occur to you that some of the accounts on here ignoring information and praising FIRST like it's an infalible organization are "fake" and just plants trying to spin positive views of decisions people would object to?
Since I am one of those newer members who just started posting again recently, and since I agree with what David has said and think FIRST is doing some questionable things, I would like to report myself to the moderators. I guess I should be moderated or silenced also since I'm don't think FIRST is perfect and is capable of doing things we wouldn't be proud of. By the way, I didn't give David any rep points - I don't care what his rep is, and I don't care what yours is either.
But Dave Lavery said we should focus on the topic of the thread, not who posted it. And since he has lots of posts and a great reputation, it sounds like I have permission to value his comments. So I'll get on topic and share this:
This morning I called one of the planning committee members here that works with the FLL and FTC events in the Bay Area. They confirmed that Lego and FIRST did make such an agreement a couple years ago. I asked who confirmed it to them, and they said a FIRST rep named Steve Chizm. They said they asked why the Vex fees couldn't be cheaper, at least for extra teams from the same school, and they were told becuase of a deal with Lego preventing any FVC fees to be the same or lower than Lego fees. So back to the point of the thread, I will state my opinion - I think that is horrible and I think FIRST is selling out their own teams if there is any truth to that. Sorry if some don't want to hear that opinion, but it's mine. If I should stop posting on Delphi because I question FIRST, let me know and I will.
But based on what I've been told, I don't think David's FIRST vs FIRLP statement is out of line.