Possible Q&A Change

[AmyPrib]

I would agree - IF team leaders are handing out their logins/passwords to everyone on the team, I urge that not be done. Perhaps - people can utilize CD to ask rules/strategy questions early in the process so that it may help avoid drowning down FIRST with "already answered" ones.

It would be nice if everyone read the manual very carefully prior to asking Q/A questions. This is partly why I started the Q/A thread last year in the rules/strategy forum - to answer questions that were asked more than once in different ways, as well as ones that are answered in the book. I tried to avoid interpretable ones and also tried to bring to light some of the good questions everyone should see..

Every year there's a big note "Please read the manual". I forget when Q/A opens up, but they should wait a week or so before opening it, so people are forced to search for the answers first.

It would be cool if FIRST could moderate or throw the "answered in manual" ones in a separate folder, but.. not sure they have the manpower to moderate.

Personally I would like to see the Q/A sections (where you choose what your question applies to) to be more broad than the individual 4.1, 4.1.1, etc so it's easier to search general topics like game, robot, etc. Guess we'll see how it looks this year. Not sure if there were any major improvements under way for that system or not.

Anyway, everyone, PLEASE READ THE MANUAL VERY CAREFULLY and ask around for the answers before going directly to FIRST.