Time limits, your input, etc.

[Johca_Gaorl]

Originally posted by Brandon Martus
Anything can be done. And that actually is a good idea. We're all about robotics, the chit-chat forum is just an added little area when the discussion turns to non-FIRST. Maybe I'll remove chit-chat from the portal 'recent threads' list.

I think that would be the best idea, and if things get to insults or something like that, then shut them down. I know I have participated in at least one of the more controversial threads, which I thought had died but got brought back up and wasn't discussed like it had been before.

However, banning all non-FIRST discussions, is most definitely a bad idea. If you have a forum specifically geared towards one topic only, and can't talk about anything else, it will die very quickly, cause people have opinions on lots of things and want to talk about them. Especially with something as seasonal as FIRST, it's like saying on a baseball forum you can't talk about anything else during off-season.

Taking them off of the portal page would be good, if you wanna get the notifications for chit-chat, then just subscribe to the forum.

You also seem to forget that we can help Brandon without being moderators, if you see a thread that is out of hand, you can send him a PM or e-mail or IM and let him know, it's not that hard and then he doesn't have to search through everything.