Forum Rules Updates

[meaubry]

All,
I suggested this small wording change for a number of reasons. Most of which were already discussed in this thread.
The history of CD is long, most know the story already so I don't need to go over it again. The one thing that we envisioned so many years ago was that we wanted to provide a place for ROBOTICS to be discussed within the FIRST community.
From day one, it was apparent that people wanted to share ideas and sometimes there were differences of opinion among the community. Understanding that this is human nature, we encouraged the Right to share opinions as long as the discussions remained civil and no one purposefully went-out of their way to be hurtful OR harmful.
As the community grew and grew, we entertained suggestions for more and various type forum topics. We provided places for groups to congregate in an even closer knit community to discuss stuff related to or about those specific topics.
The Chit Chat fori grew out of this - it holds a wide variety of topics within it - including Games and Fantasy First. But sometimes the topics begin to sway away from anything Robotics related and into the world of politics and religion. These 2 items are the most difficult to deal with as a moderator and as the community of CD users.
So, I felt it was time to be able to re-focus the CD site back to where we as a community have a common thread - Robotics.
It will also assist the moderators in closing threads that are NOT robotics related without having to wonder "if they should have or not".
I trust the moderators know when a post or thread is not even remotely related to anything having to do with our robotics focused community and they will do a good job.
On the flipside - the number of complaints about non robotic related posts should be reduced and if all goes well, the number of people that are turned off by the non-robotics related threads will stick around and participate on this wonderful resource we have shared with all of FIRST.

Thanks, for listening.
Mike Aubry