At what point does it become unacceptable for a mentor to design/build the robot

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Originally Posted by bduddy

I disagree. If there is a team that is doing a disservice to its own students by not giving them as much as FIRST should be giving them, I don't think the rest of the community should ignore it.

By and large you aren't "their" community, and neither am I.

Sticking our collective noses into how other people choose to run their teams is almost definitely destructive in terms of the larger culture, and I can't imagine how it would accomplish anything whatsoever in terms of how that team chooses to organize itself...

ESPECIALLY given the undeniable fact that you'd be operating on extremely incomplete information.

We don't all have to agree on what's best in order to do our best.

Edit:

Who the heck are you or I to presume to say to another team that their team isn't giving them "as much as FIRST should be giving them"? Even assuming perfect information--which assuredly we do not have--why is our definition of what's best for their team better than their definition of what's best for their team?

To whit, if we as a community can't even agree on whether or not sticking our noses into one another's business is a good idea, we're certainly not going to agree on how much to do so, or how.