mentors, please help to prevent forum abuse

[Solace]

This is a plea to all of the teams that use chiefdelphi as a scouting resource.

I realize that many teams start their scouting early in the season, and that CD is sometimes the only way to do that. I have nothing against that, nor do I blame the students who start threads asking for scouting info that everybody has to read. The problem is that these scouts have often had little to no experienece using CD, and the offending threads asking for information are often the first posts that these students make. As a result, they can't truly blamed for not knowing about the various search functions that make the forum more manageable.

and so I make my request. If a time has a pre-season scouting program, one in which students are required to look up other teams and/or contact them for information, these students will invarianbly come to CD (as it is really the only place that has the information). I would ask that the mentors of the scouting program make sure that their students are aware of the forum rules and functions. If the scouting system on a team is organized enough to assign certain teams to certain students, then it is easily organized enough to show kids the rules before they go off creating annoying threads.

This is not a life or death situation. Even if the problem persists, it is not going to serious disrupt the way CD operates, nor is it so annoying that it will make coming here a tedious affair. Rather, this is just a simple request for mentors to help this forum to run more smoothly. Please consider this request - it only takes a moment of your time, and it will not only improve the effectiveness of your scouting but the effectiveness of Chiefdelphi as a whole.