Farewell, Chief Delphi.

[CarterM]

No....

I've been idolizing your CAD drawings for the last couple months, I even have a bulletin board across my wall with lots of CAD drawings, many from yourself. Basically, your crazy and cool swerve drawings is what first introduced me into CAD, since then, I've "played" more on Autodesk Inventor than my previous gaming addiction (Guild Wars, Warcraft, etc...). Thanks for your inspiration! Stay in touch!

[gblake]

Craig,

I just tried to use your CD contact info to send you an email - The attempt failed. CD tells me it failed because you no longer wish to receive emails through CD....

If you are still paying enough attention to CD to see this (or if someone else knows how to forward this to Craig), please send me an email (see my sig info below) - We can commiserate

In what was perhaps a similar situation, you could certainly color me surprised after some of the __ (adjectives fail me) messages and replies I got when I stirred the prejudices of some other folks in this thread http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=66664

You would have thought I was advocating the downfall of human civilization instead of looking for a dispassionate discussion of whether the non-linear nature of the alliance drafting processes of typical FIRST-related competitions can create some odd situations that can lead to counter-intuitive strategies.

I haven't chosen to pull the plug. Maybe there is a third option. Beware false dichotomies.

Blake

[ZInventor]

I know where you're coming from.

Although i haven't been insulted much on CD, i have noticed a sort of aversion to my posts. while many people look at them, no one responds, even to simple questions i ask to try and get help.

a few months back, one of my posts hit 1000 views, and only one or two responses,

and, whats worse, almost every post i've ever set on CD, has hit 200 views, and only a coupple have had more than 2 replies!

I know it might seem unrelated, but i've felt somewhat let down by CD users when a post asking a question will sit sometimes over 3 months before a single reply.

I'll be sad to see you go, but may soon folow you out the door.

I've been a great fan pf your cad, and hope you'll keep putting up pictures every oce and a while.

-Z

[Koko Ed]

You guys think it's bad here?
You ought to try other boards and I'd think you'd appreciate the CD community alot more than you do. It's like these other boards don't even have moderators and 75% of the postings are nothing more than personal attacks.
Trust me. CD is an oasis in the wasteland that is the internet.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

Having been kicked off a FIRST team by a student with power delusions, I hoped to be able to keep involved through CD. For a time, it worked. I was still a part of FRC, and I enjoyed it. But over time, the same issues that have bugged me for a long time, and have dug at me since I joined have not gone away, nor even diminished. There are many here who were not part of the problem, and I'd like to thank them. I could name names, but it wouldn't prove anything, nor further any goal.

I don't know about this quitting CD business, kinda actually makes sense, seeing how you’re going off to college (I should probably do the same lol )...

But I think your real gripe is not with CD at all but with 114. Ever since they kicked you off you've been kind of upset and its shown in your posts (probably why people negative repped you).

I'm pretty good friends with some of the people on your team so I have a rough idea of why you got kicked off. For the sake of privacy I won't share that here, but it involved some sort of a fight over robot design/construction...

If there's one thing I've learned from being the "head engineer" for my team its "never give up." People will constantly find problems with everything you design and build - sometimes going so far as to ridicule you. Even worse, sometimes physics finds problems with your designs , and people are like “I told you so!” But guess what. That's what engineering is all about. If nobody pointed out the problems, the robot wouldn't work.

Take criticism as advice, listen to people's ideas (even if they're really stupid ideas), be patient, synthesize ideas, and never, EVER, GIVE UP!

-Martin T.

[Michael Corsetto]

Some have asked for the other side to the story, the other side to the reason CraigHickman has decided to leave CD and the FIRST Community. As Co-captain of 114 in 2007 and involved mentor in 2008, I could give the CD community that story, but I know that the public forums is no place to air a team's dirty laundry, I've been around CD long enough to know that.

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

Having been kicked off a FIRST team by a student with power delusions,...

Statements like this are nothing more than a personal attack, and I do not wish to do anything of the sort with this post. All I ask is that the CD community would not jump to any conclusions as to the integrity of Team 114 or its members.

Craig, I wish you the best of luck in college and beyond.

Thank you,
Michael C.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Rex114

Statements like this are nothing more than a personal attack

Well that pretty much says enough for me. I'm glad someone from 114 said something.

I think this whole thread was unnecessary really and is just an example of off-season forum venting. If you want to leave, then by all means leave, but don't make a fuss while doing it. Good luck in your endeavors.

[Molten]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

I think this whole thread was unnecessary really and is just an example of off-season forum venting. If you want to leave, then by all means leave, but don't make a fuss while doing it.

This thread was finally finished, and you bring it back up? A guy left, he is gone, no need to insult him now.

[acdcfan259]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Well that pretty much says enough for me. I'm glad someone from 114 said something.

I think this whole thread was unnecessary really and is just an example of off-season forum venting. If you want to leave, then by all means leave, but don't make a fuss while doing it. Good luck in your endeavors.

I second that. There's plenty of stuff happening on my team that angers me. MANY people that I don't like. But I'm not going to post about it on here because I know that nobody wants to hear me complaining.