No More Teasers in 2007?

[JaneYoung]

It may be as simple as
- quality not quantity
- using common sense when making a decision regarding a teaser -
does it add, does it detract, does it clutter?
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To add to this, when making suggestions/comments/referrals to threads - we can be gracious.

Jane

[FourPenguins]

Well I think that what we're facing is a common sense issue. Like someone above me put it, people are getting trigger-happy with CD media. There's really not much to be done about that unless Brandon et al want to put an upload cap on every user.

Like you said, there can't be any hard and fast rules, and lacking hard and fast rules, I'd rather see a few bad teasers than a bunch of people withholding information in fear of mod wrath.

Everyone should think before they click submit, but not everyone will read this thread, and not everyone who reads this thread will always remember to stop and think, so it looks to me like there's nothing that CD can do but add more mods.

That said, I think this forum takes itself too seriously sometimes. The backlash you can get for making a new thread bearing any similarity to a previous one sometimes approaches ridiculous. (I know the reasoning for this and in most cases it's right, but when you get flamed for not dredging up a 6-month-old thread...) This is a massive forum, and it does need policing and a general attitude of maturity and, at times, restraint, but it's still a forum, a place of free expression and communication between, to a large degree, high school students. (Woo, run-on!) This isn't an official business site or any other professional discussion, so sometimes there's an occasion to lighten up.

(I suspect that that last paragraph may cause a stir, and I really hope it doesn't, but I felt it should be said, and I think I said it politely and maturely.)

[Travis Covington]

Half the fun of a teaser is just that... teasing. If I saw a completed bot or chassis or anything nearly finished I wouldn't be teased at all. I do agree that some photos of bolts and chain and other random parts are uneccesary, however, the lasercut/waterjet parts in the first "bad" teaser link you posted are perfect teasers! It makes people think "how could those possibly fit together, and what function does that mechanism serve." Bottomline - it's fun guessing what people are doing. Truly good teasers should give people a good place to start guessing, while still leaving some mystery and uncertainty.