Dear GDC,

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Mike Betts

Kevin,

I hear ya... I think the intent of the 4 day wait was to allow teams to read the rules. However, the reality is that everyone who is going to read the rules have done so by Sunday. And, however hard we try and make it different, you can give the remainder 4 weeks and they still will not have read them! Maybe a Monday open?

And, as excruciating as it is for the rest of us to see so few questions answered, I believe that most of the GDC have day jobs. Also, I'd rather few answers that are correct rather than quick answers that could have been thought out better...

In fact, we could all help the process by posting more intelligent and less repetitious questions.

Yeah. Like that's gonna happen...

Regards,

Mike

Monday would make a lot of sense. I do understand the wait for people to actually read the rules, and the desire to cut down on the number of "Read the rules" style answers. I think by waiting so long, however, they end up with a flood of identical questions as everyone on CD that's been waiting for an answer posts the same questions with different wordings. It's obviously difficult to avoid repetitious questions when there are so few answered, after all. And no, CD as a clearinghouse for questions to the Q&A is not a good idea. We shouldn't have to pick up the slack for something that should be being addressed by FIRST.

I do understand that the GDC members have day jobs. They should still be able to get to a few questions during evenings, though. It appears that there were 0 new answers last night, which is just ridiculous. If FIRST is actually planning on growing any larger, they're going to need to develop a better system for the Q&A. Perhaps making sure a few of the GDC members are employed by FIRST itself and can thus have their day jobs put on hold for January to make sure the easier Q&A questions get answered in a timely fashion, thus cutting down on the number necessary for consideration by the full GDC.