How We Deal With Change Is Up To Us

[JesseK]

Foster, I agree with you to a degree. There are many of us who sacrifice free time for whatever endeavors we partake, be it robotics, grad school, pets, kids, or all of the above.

In my opinion, there is a lot of sarcasm, complaining, and negativity being voiced, often by mentors. Is all of it a necessary or needed contribution to the discussions?

My opinion is that yes, it's needed. Our voice is really the only way we can express our opinions. Often times, FIRST will never know how we feel or to what extent we feel about something unless there are extremes of negativity, complaining, and sarcasm (or the opposite).

Yet can unfounded tripe, close-minded opinions, and biased griping about a tangent topic be grouped into a general category of babbling idiocy? Yes, and it should. It's why I believe that rep points should be given to a post and not to the person (like slashdot, thereifixedit, digg, etc) so that such posts eventually disappear into the oblivion of memory.

Yet (and this is my point) mentors have the capability to have much more time and money invested into FIRST than any high school student, and to say that we shouldn't at least listen to any one opinion from a mentor at least once on a given topic is saying that all of CD is becoming as closed minded as the babbling idiots themselves. Of course, this is only my opinion, and I won't deny my own ramblings on these forums.