[EricH]

Originally Posted by ethan_orion

Sarcasm is the utility of the weak and pathetic. If you feel so important over publicly documented information, then don't take your own self-pity out on other people who are simply trying to expedite their learning. If empowering yourself by devaluing the learning and experience of another person is critical to your self-worth then I encourage you to reach out and grow through other means.

I for one, will not stand to listen to arrogant hormonal contributors who prioritize elitism over support and learning - despite what may seem to be a 'stupid question'. It's just not productive except to bolster your own sense of importance through an artificial medium.

So...

Yes, read the FTC manual but please continue to post questions that others may have a quick response that will support and enhance your experience with FTC.

Ethan

Ethan, if someone doesn't know how to find information, they need to learn. CD won't always be here. In this case, the information was right there, if the time had been taken to look for it. No indication that that time had been taken was present. This is a "do my homework for me" situation. My response is to either give the answer with the method or to give the method. The question at the end was to confirm that I had in fact read the FTC rules correctly--and to encourage the OP to read them himself.

The other reason that I give the "how to find" methodology--and try to encourage people to read the manual--is because many times over the years, somebody has posted a question that has already been answered in the rulebook, or comes here to get clarification on a rule. CD is not an official FIRST site, and as such, ALL rules questions that are answered here need to have a basis in the rules and/or Q&A for the competition in question for the answer to be close to official.

What would happen if CD suddenly shut down, and the FRC/FTC/FLL/VRC teams suddenly didn't have a quick reference to find their answers? Would they be able to look at the appropriate sources and get the answers they needed? Sometimes I wonder...

Also, it generally isn't a good idea to make unfounded assumptions about what is going on in other people's minds and then state those assumptions publicly, especially in an "internet tone" similar to the one used. People tend to get annoyed.