F4 - Connect (The new way to get help)

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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

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.

The example was a joke, but even though I dislike the use of anonymous accounts, atleast they are still getting help from the entire knowledge base of CD.

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

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.

The fact that you said that alarms me and hints at some arrogance that you might (or might not) have. Also you contradicted your first statement with your second. You said that the group of all of you will have the required knowledge, and just because I don't know it doesn't mean you don't... Well I sure hope that you have more than I do, because I know for a fact the I (or my entire team combined, including the mentors, for that matter) don't have enough knowledge. And also when you yourself said that one mentor might have more knowledge than all of you combined, how can you still say that you will be able to answer everything. If someone can have MORE knowledge that you, than that means you don't know everything...... And that is the point of cd, so that both the good mentors (and students) can give their good advice, and the mentors and students with bad advice can get told that their advice is bad... So the OP only listens to the good advice, oh and the bad advice people also learn the proper advice for future use... its a win win