F4 - Connect (The new way to get help)

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by dirtbikerxz

I guess I can kind of get the point of F4 connect if it was strictly students talking to other students about social issues.... but then again I really don't, what if a student gets a wrong advice: Student 1: "Me and my mentor aren't getting along what do I do?" Student 2: "Oh just make a new team." Student 1: "Okay!...... "

Except for in a few specific questions, I really don't see the point of not getting advice from multiple sources including multiple students and multiple mentors....

And definitely not for technical questions. Who cares if you have a pretty simple question, no one is going to say "oh you don't know how to enable the bot, get out of here"... While CD might be condescending sometimes, there is much more good than bad.

And don't even get started that you can "answer all questions accurately". I'm a high school student, I'm going to be a junior in the fall.... and I will bet all my money that you can't. It's simple logic. We are students, we have only existed for a maximum of 18 or so years. THERE IS NO WAY THAT WE HAVE THE SAME EXPERIENCE AS THE MENTORS OF 50 AGE WHO DO THIS FOR A LIVING. (and here come the red dots )

Please don't give advice to a student somewhere that could get him/her in serious trouble or something like that.

Well first of all we are here to give correct advice. We will never give a preposterous answer like you demonstrated. There are many situations in FRC where people are not comfortable using a message board. Hence the large quantity of anonymous accounts.

Actually people will say hah you do not know how to enable the bot get out of here. I encourage you to read some of the responses to threads early in the season they generally are the most condescending. Some people also have simple questions they do not want tied to their team. Say a team has no idea how to connect the radio. They are a 4 year team but the seniors who started the team graduated. That team does not want to make themselves look bad asking a simple question.

Your last few points particularly are alarming to me. To start just because you do not know something does not mean none of us do you can not generalize high school students and say they will always be less knowledgeable then adults. Next point is even more alarming. There are mentors who have been in FRC for dozens of years yet cant get their team to field a working robot. Are there mentors more knowledgeable then all of us combined absolutely. But there are also plenty who know much less.