Communication-Just some thoughts

[Mr. Lim]

Somedays, I have a love/hate relationship with ChiefDelphi...

But this thread brings up one of the reasons why I love it.

By simply participating in discussions on ChiefDelphi, I've seen many members from my team become far more adept at expressing themselves through their writing. They drop the shortcuts, use proper capitalization, grammar and sentence structure, and otherwise learn to sound coherent. They realize that they NEED to do this when trying to discuss something of value on CD.

But, they don't all start off that way...

Sometimes I wonder, because our current membership doesn't contribute a lot to ChiefDelphi - at least relative to our team in the past, and especially compared to our alumni. Do they feel pressured that they have to construct a "perfect response" to uphold the reputation of the team and themselves or else face the ridicule of their peers and mentors. I hope not, but a part of me sometimes can't shake that feeling.

I want my team to post on ChiefDelphi - and I want them to do it often. I think they have a lot of interesting insight to offer, but chances are if they were to do it right now, it might come out a bit mangled. Some might even make the fatal mistake of mixing up legendary Canadian basketball icon (and now Raptors head coach) Jay Triano with legendary Canadian science icon Jay Ingram...

But the best is being able to pat the offender on the back, and in light of him/her committing ChiefDelphi reputation suicide, say something along the lines of: "Now go do something completely pro-star to make up for it..."

And guess what? They ALWAYS do.

I love it, because this is how winners come to be.