my idea of a question forum...

[Ken Leung]

Great idea guys.

As far as having a group of Answerers, my big concern is people saying "how come I don't get to be an answerer?", and think that we are only picking favorites to give privileges to. That is definitely not the cast. We would be asking helps from people like Joe Johnson and Mike Martus on CD, Andy Baker on Technokats, Raul and Al from Wildstang, Chris and gross on Beachbot, along with other engineers/mentors on other teams because of their experties in the competition.

I just don't know what to tell people when I know there are enough answerers, or I know they wouldn't be of much help... Its easier for Chief Delphi because they only accept people on their team for moderators.


Then for categorizing, two things we can do. We can sort questions by dates, so we know which ones hasn't been asnwered for a long time. Then after questions are answered, they will be moved to the appropiate category which the question remain in the question forum for a day or two indicating its been moved to this or that forum.

The people who asked the question will still know where it is, and afterward people who want to look up answers can find it in the appropiate category.

We just got to come up with a way to make sure the question forums get clogged up with 200 questions like how it was in Yahoo board last season. Trust me, I was there... There were so many questions that it was impossible to go through all of them at the end... (I also remember one of Dr. Joe's questions about regional wasn't answered for 4 weeks or so.)


Mean while, this question forum is designed to answer people's questions about the competition as fast as possible... All the discussion can happen here in CD. If people see some interesting topics, they can post the same thing in the appropiate forums in here. As I said, this would be a compliment to CD, not competing with it.

It would also act as team support of FIRST, except with lots of people with close knownledge to their area and lots of experience in the competition. So, even though the answer are not words from FIRST, it would still be valid in the form that "yes, please take a look at rule ##", or "here is what we did last year", etc.


Well, I don't know... I would definitely love to see more responds from more people.