How does 469 not violate <R19>?

[Jaine Perotti]

Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish

I just watched a youtube Video of 469. oh my! im Just mad that I didnt think of it first. What an awesome Way to play the game guys, it is awesome! I think this thread however is a travistey , and I am appauled that people of first would actually stoop so low as to publicly nit-pick a design and go so fas as sugest that First should change the rules to dissallow this robot. Thats Discusting! If I were a student on 469 right now I would feel alienated by this comunity. we should be praising them for setting the bar higher and working on a way to top them, not be engaging in this Very Un-Gracious, Un-Professonal discustsion.

I wouldn't go so far as to call this particular thread a "travesty" - the vast majority of the posts in this thread were not actually calling for changes to the rules. This thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=84293 and this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=84280 were far more egregious in this sense.

Most of the discussion in this topic has been pretty civil. However, I would still like to urge people to be sensitive towards the members of 469 who read and post here. How would you feel if there were multiple threads on CD explicitly discussing how to shut down your team's scoring capability during match play? Or publicly brainstorming designs for mechanisms intended specifically to interfere with your robot? Calling for FIRST to change the rules to make your team's robot and strategy illegal?

A certain level of attention and discussion may be seen as flattering. Taken too far however, it can cross the line into making people feel unfairly targeted. Let's try to make sure we are mindful of that line.