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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
What cracks me up is when you're the only person in a walkway/hallway (or with a couple other people) and 3 drive team members from another team walk up and they yell robot. Ok there's three or less people, and we can clearly see your robot. Seriously. There's no need to shout. I can understand if it's in a big crowd (but, of course, something more polite other than ROBOT!) to speak loudly, but it's not necessary to yell to one person.
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I think that yelling ROBOT isn't a problem when done correctly. It's just like "excuse me please" which can be said in an extremely offensive way or it can be said politely. I personally like the yelling of ROBOT as long as the person yelling it is courteous but when they're rude it is extremely offensive because humans are more important then robots. I think this problem could be solved if people were just more polite, changing words won't change anything though.
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
We've started sort of a running bit to continually evolve what we say every time we pass certain teams/volunteers. (All spoken, not yelled.) We only do it for people we think will get a kick out of it; otherwise it's just "please excuse my robot". Scope varies by event, but IRI was great for it. We'd have conversations with random people that went literally, "Row-bot!" "Row-bot?" "Row-bot.
" "Row-bot..." "Row-bot " "Row-bot. ", all the way to and "glow-tote" and "faux-moat".As far as what's so grating about "ROBOT!", I'd argue it's both. It's not just the tone and relative volume--though that's probably the originating issue. The word itself compounds it: if someone's already being aggressive, there's an impression on condescension in the thought that others should move specifically because it's a robot, rather than because I'd like you to excuse me. It's also more terse, which doesn't help in this case. |
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It really was great. All the teams/students there were mindful enough of their surroundings and everyone just let each other know when they needed to step aside.
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
This. If people were more mindful of their surroundings ALL the time, things like this would not even be discussed. Remember the mindfullness takes place at BOTH ends of the robot cart.
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
I remember my first experience with someone yelling "Robot!" ...he wore a fuzzy hat and our entire team thought he kept yelling "RO-BUTT."
It got to the point where he did it even when no one was in front of him when he passed our pit, so we ended up collectively responding...."Yes, we know." |
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
It's a new season so I'm going to resurrect this thread
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The neverending story....
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
Re-BOOT!
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
That, sadly, has to be re-told every year. There are better and less irritating ways of getting safely through the pit.
On 1923 our rule is 'If I hear you pointlessly yelling ROBOT as we walk to/from the field, you're out of the pit for the weekend.' We plan on sticking to it. |
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I hate the "R" word |
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
Can this thread finally die? Please? It is not going anywhere, it is never going to go anywhere, and it serves no purpose other than creating enmity.
If you dissolve all of the conflations between the actual use of "Robot!" as a means to let people know they're in the way (which is perfectly fine, unless you have some sort of overbearing negative reaction to the word "robot") and the plethora of unrelated rude/disruptive behaviors described over the length of the thread, there's really not even that much to discuss. There's no point for 16 pages of debate about word choice. Last edited by Oblarg : 26-02-2014 at 13:52. |
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
It raises awareness.
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
A thread outlining those practices which are actually rude/unnecessary/disruptive would be much better at raising awareness then a thread about something tangentially related with which a whole load of other things are being conflated.
I don't think anyone here gets all that upset if a person pulling a robot cart uses the word "robot" instead of "excuse me," all other things being equal. If they do, I'd say that's a personal problem. |
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
Can we make tshirts?
Collect signatures? Ooo Ooo, who has a button maker? ....I love this thread. |
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