FRC Captains Round Table - Networking Facebook Group

[Alan Anderson]

*sigh*

I apologize if I'm being unreasonably dense, but your answer didn't help me much. Your reason for choosing the name "Captains" still isn't clear, which makes me worry that I don't share your understanding of what it means. Worse, though, it looks to me like you're saying two different things about the intended membership.

Originally Posted by theCADman

This group was named FRC Captains Round Table, SIMPLY BECAUSE IT SOUNDS COOL LIKE THAT. You know....Knights of the Round Table sort of thing....

I'll accept without further discussion the fact that you think it's cool, even as I see no explanation of why you think "Captains" is a cool name. De gustibus non est disputandum, though.



Here's the part with which I'm still having difficulty:

I will stress that this group will not let in: Coaches, Team parents, any student who isn't Captain or the equivalent (which includes sub division heads etc), or Mentors (unless they were captain or the equivalent in the past).

So in that part you're including "sub division heads etc" as the equivalent of Captain, but...

This will not be a group for general student leaders within the team,...

...here you're saying "general student leaders" are not invited. It's clear that you don't consider the phrases I quoted to be the same thing, but that ends up making me not know what you do consider them to mean.



It was said earlier in the thread that words mean things. Unfortunately, it's common to find that they mean different things to different people. I'm obviously not grasping the meaning you want to get across. If it's just me who's still confused, I'll graciously stop trying to wrench something I can understand out of you. But if others have the same difficulty figuring out who you do and do not want to include, that's a problem.

[EDesbiens]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

*sigh*


I'll accept without further discussion the fact that you think it's cool, even as I see no explanation of why you think "Captains" is a cool name. De gustibus non est disputandum, though.

The good word here is not why, it's why not!

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

So in that part you're including "sub division heads etc" as the equivalent of Captain, but...

You may be confused by the parsing of that sentence, which I clearly read as "anyone who is not X", wherein the set NotX includes subteam leads.

I would suggest Top (of your team) Student Leadership as a synonym. The students who do/did not report to or serve under other students. Sub-leads, as their name implies, fall into the category of "did serve under/report to" and thus do not meet the definition.