mentors, please help to prevent forum abuse

[KenWittlief]

is there a single thread into which teams can enter and snarf scouting info?

if not, is someone going to start one?

[Solace]

that's an idea, but trying to keep everything within a single thread manageable would be quite a challenge.

an alternative solution would be to create a forum entirely for scouting purposes, but I don't think that the problem is big enough that we need to make brandon make changes to the forum itself. if mentors just make their students aware of how to use the forum, then the problem dissappears.

this is a gracious professionalism kind of thing. There are no rules against it, and it doesn't pose an enormous problem, but with just a little effort we can make CD a more streamlined and enjoyable forum.

[Ryan Albright]

or maybe its own forum

[MikeDubreuil]

Perhaps a forum be created called "Robots 2004". In that forum, you create a thread for each team number. If you want information on a team you talk about it in the appropriate thread. Seems a simple way to keep things organized.

[Greg Needel]

i think that most teams have members on this fourm and contacting a member from the team through the members menu is better then having around 1000 posts (1 for each team)

[AmyPrib]

I thought there was a thread/forum called Scouting.. If you go to the Rules/Strategy forum off the main page, there's Scouting within there.... Although I haven't seen much posted in there recently, but that's where I'd assume scouting info/questions should go...

[Bharat Nain]

Just a thought.. In the Picture Gallery.. Where teams upload their robot pictures.. if they are willing enough.. they can add their own robot and team information in detail(whatever a scouting form requires) and if additional information is required, they can PM the user who posted the pictures.. Again... This is just a thought...

[Solace]

I agree that these are all possible solutions, but they ignore the problem to a degree. the scouters often have no experience with CD, otherwise they wouldn't be doing what they do.

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Solace

I agree that these are all possible solutions, but they ignore the problem to a degree. the scouters often have no experience with CD, otherwise they wouldn't be doing what they do.

The only way to fix the problem is to come up with something else as a solution for scouting info. Then once that's up, we will delete all post from people who are asking for contact info. Until then, we cannot do anything except to keep it in one place and keep it away from portal.