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I didnt mean to offend or turn anybody away by shutting down the Who-Am-I picture discussion. The problem was that there were 4 active threads, comprised of the same 4-5 people, all dealing with the same thing... stuff thats already been discussed in the Chit-Chat forum. (or could be with a click of the 'new thread' button)
People do browse the forums by other methods besides the portal. I don't use the portal. Besides the times I've had to fix/modify it, I can count the number of times on one hand that I've actually used it to see new/active threads. I'm sure I'm not the only one. So, its hard to just 'ignore' the threads, when the same ones keep popping up every 2 minutes.
Some things that started to make me look at these threads negatively.. "I just added this picture, so start posting on it", "I thought it would be fun to start a thread about you and have people say stuff about you", etc. Starting a thread, just for the sake of starting a thread is a waste of resources, space, time, etc. If someone has something to say, they will. They don't need an invitation, or anything.
Someone mentioned not being able to talk about other non-first stuff here, like college, high school, etc. Thats what the chit-chat forum is for, and there are already topics on alot of those threads. I know if I saw a topic titled 'Image Discuss: username (team#)' and a topic named 'what college are you going to', i'd have some idea on what the latter thread was about, and know that it probably was going to be about that topic only. The who-am-i topics changed subjects so many times I had no clue what was going on during 1/2 of them.
Anyway. Let me sleep on this, think about it, read the countless replies to this hasty late-night reply, and we'll see what happens in the next day or two. They may come back; they may not. Either way, remember that we are here to talk about robotics. Yes, a good chunk of FIRST is meeting people & such, but if you look -- 3 of the 5 recent "Who-Am-I" threads were about & contained discussion from people on the same team. Yes, we're here to meet peple & talk about random things, and there is a Chit-Chat forum, profile pages (to get contact info), and private messaging for just that.
Thank you, and good night.
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