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Re: Upcoming Site Changes
Forums are designed to encourage people posting collected, coherent discussion to fuel the discourse of a community over a long period of time, also providing a place to be referenced in the future for ideas and a cornerstone of a community's history. Chief Delphi is a slice of FIRSTthropology, or something, like our own little town hall. A chatroom doesn't have any of these benefits and comes with drawbacks that create word vomit and provide nothing of use to the community long-term. There are "chatroom opportunities" through other outlets with FIRSTers, be it webstreams or Facebook messaging, but I don't think a chatroom here is in the best interests of the community. It's like putting a middle school cafeteria in a courthouse.
Of course I'm not an admin, so this opinion is worth about as much as a disco record or AOL Free Trail CD.
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While FIRST's goal is to inspire young people, it will be much easier to do that if we also inspire all the older people as well. - E. Wood [more] 
09-10-2013, 11:12
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