Collaboration..

[Ben.V.293]

Dear Chief Delphi community,
I would like to apologize for my posts and i feel HORRIBLE about my actions. What the heck was I thinking, I was the idiot, and I was stupid. For those of you who looked past the tone and language of my post and comented on the actual point of it, thank you. Please do not hold a grudge against 293 but you can think whatever you want about me. I will take responsability for my actions and I will keep this account and try regain my credability. My posts were irrashional and irresponsable. I do not hate this site or the people who post on it. This site is an amazing tool that has contributed greatly to the growth of FIRST. Everyone who posts here has my respect even though at the moment i might not have theirs. if you would like to talk to me you can private message me or im me. I will try my hardest to prove to everyone that i am not a terrible person. I am asking for forgiveness even though i deserve none. i leave you with these words "THINK BEFORE YOU POST".

Ben Van Selous

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by JosephM

I wanted to insert my opinion here on both topics:

-On freedome of speach, I think this whole topic is swayed by the opinions of those reading it. I thought the collaboration thread was going very well, I though both sides were fair. But others disagreed.

Ok. I think we got a good cool down period. FIRST have made their ruling on this issue, and I think we can have a civilized discussion about that ruling. If other moderators have no objection, I would like to start a thread in the moderated area and have a discussion about FIRST's decision. Keep in mind that this discussion is going to be about FIRST's decision, and not about team 254 and 60. Also, any negative remarks to bad-mouth FIRST will be most unwelcomed.

I will wait a little to hear if any other moderators have objections about this.

[Bharat Nain]

I really dont want to interrupt, this is purely something from me and not my team:

The other day I was hanging out with a bunch of people from Thailand. I soon got intrested in their history and stuff. Let me tell you what I learnt, maybe adopting a bit of this might help.

Typical Thai people/ a little history: A long time ago when the British had tried to control Thailand, the British forced them to convert them to Christianity. Since the Thai people dont really take things too seriously, they attended the Church but never converted. They never took it seriously and went on with life nice and cool. Infact, they followed their culture as usual. Typical Thai people are like that, as per what I have heard. We might just want to cool down a little bit.

On the other hand, When the French and British wanted to invade Thailand, The kings were clever. They never had enough army to resist their forces. So instead they gave a small part of their country to French and a small part to British. British and the French fought each other and the kings saved their country. So even though they were cool, still they were tactful. No offence to anybody on here, its just something that might help.

Cheer up, Life is good
-Tekno Bramha

[Spikey]

If any of you have noticed Ben has replied and apologized for his remarks, I am also informed he PM'd a large number of people with apologies including the moderators. We all recognize that these remarks were foolish, but I am pleased that at least Ben had the guts to publicly admit he was wrong. Not a lot of people would have done that. Lets move on from this unpleasant subject.

[Brandon Martus]

Yeah. Ben apologized via PM.

I'm going to close this thread. There is a collaboration thread open in the Moderated Forum if anybody has anything else to say about that discussion.