A Musing on Forum Etiquette

[gblake]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Rule #7: You represent your team in everything you do. Act with gracious professionalism at all times.

How about rephrasing this particular "musing" to "You represent yourself at all times, so be gracious and professional. It's the right thing to do within, and outside of, FIRST contexts."

Also adding, "FYI, some people will mistakenly assume that you also represent a team at all times."

Blake

[merybar]

Chief Delphi is a great resource for a lot of teams/the first community. Its a great place to go to get information and to check out other peoples thoughts on certain topics. People know the rules that are set out for the site and people try there best to follow them. Sometimes though when teams are at a practice and need help with something they throw things up there, come on guys is it really the end of the world?
Good luck this year to everyone!
Matt

[EricH]

Originally Posted by merybar

People know the rules that are set out for the site and people try there best to follow them. Sometimes though when teams are at a practice and need help with something they throw things up there, come on guys is it really the end of the world?

It is etiquette, not rules, that we are discussing. They are different things. There are some things that are not exactly liked on CD, such as discussing sensitive intra-team issues or asking (or demanding) an answer to a question would have been answered faster by searching or reading the manual. These are not against forum rules. However, they are not the best-liked things on here.

We shouldn't be too hard on rushed questions, but there are some times when we just can't take it any more. This isn't the first thread of its kind; nor will it be the last.

[merybar]

I know i have significantly less posts than most of you in this thread and have been around a shorter period of time. I agree with you people must use etiquette on the forum i agree with that 100%. However its not the end of the world when it happens. It doesn't happen a ton. People are going to be people. It will make more of a statement, when somebody does post something not using the CD etiquette, to just not answer there post than reply a jumpy answer.