The Chief Delphi opinion

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Originally Posted by Siri

This is a very serious problem: we shouldn't be chasing away well-meaning students (or mentors) that want to ask and learn. ... Intimidation against asking questions may be our bigger flaw, though.

Or creating threads? A passionate kid, with 25 posts from another country creates this thread and almost immediately gets attacked. I don't get it. I'd love to see the community get back to a fun open minded brainstorming - not everything someone does needs to devolve into an argument - in my mind thats why these students are intimidated.

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

I will agree that people are scared to post on Chief Delphi, but we should be focusing on why they are scared to post.

We should go a little easier on new posters but they have a responsibility as well to not post beyond their experience because when they do its obvious

I feel like I missed something here. I read the OP, I read the referenced post (ok the referenced was maybe leaning a bit more controversial), but I honestly don't get what is so controversial about this thread.

I saw it more as a light hearted attempt to gather up some "quick opinions", that all of us could choose to take with a grain of salt (or overreact to as it seems to be).
Things like...
- Set Screws Stink
- Lead Screws Are Tough to Use Well
- Iterate as Much as you Can
- Learn from Past Seasons Designs
- Sheet Metal and Rivets can lighten a design
- Speed Controllers Hate Metal Shavings
- Ones and Zeros can be heavy!
- Potentiometers often require precision placement
- Battery Cables are NOT handles
- Safety Glasses are NOT forehead protectors
- Turrets should only be used when necessary
- KISS

etc etc...

I dunno, maybe I'm just not in attack mode these days, or I really seriously missed something, but I think this thread could have been light hearted and fun.