PSA to new forum users v2

Its that time of year again: the start of a new season. Consequently, many new people are joining robotics clubs across the world and thus vex forum. This is great, as the goal for RECF is to have as many students involved in robotics as possible. We welcome new users into the community, but there a couple of things you need to know.

Don’t ask people for robot ideas. There are lots of threads that already discuss this. You can find these with the search bar. You can also give YouTube a search too. Plenty of robots have been revealed and there have been a few explanation videos so far this season as well.

Don’t ask whether or not something is legal. There have been so many posts about this recently. The game manual tells you everything you can’t do. I doesn’t tell you everything you can do. If you can’t find a rule, use the search feature in the manual. cntrl F is your friend. Give it a read: VRC Over Under Game Manual - VEX Robotics If you have a question about a rule, quote the applicable rule in your question so others know you aren’t an idiot. There is a difference between asking about an edge case scenario and if you’re allowed to build a claw.

Think before you post. I have seen new users post blatantly incorrect information on the forum. Don’t just post what you think cause your friend Bob told you it is true. Try and find the source for what information you are giving (and maybe you’ll actually learn something new while your at it). And if you do realize something you said is wrong, delete your post. All you’re doing is hurting new users like yourself.

The forum isn’t discord. Use a spell check. Don’t post the same thing multiple times and don’t post something if it isn’t relevant to the discussion. Use the search bar, and see if your question has already been asked. Make sure your post is in the appropriate category.

Give the community guidelines a read. They go into more detail about what you can and can’t do on the forum: https://www.vexforum.com/faq

I made a similar post to this last year, but obviously there are new people here. And it has been locked for, reasons.

tl;dr: Read the manual. Use the search bar. Make sure what you’re posting is true. Don’t ask people for robot ideas.

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I would like to add that if there is an error in your code, please send us only the relevant section of the code along with any error messages you get in order for us to effectively help you. Make sure to use backticks ` to format your code and it would be nice if it was indented.

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Thanks for posting this reminder. The link above is a more detailed list of how we can help you.

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…and to anyone asking for help troubleshooting their build (friction, gear ratio, etc.): Posting images of relevant sections of the robot makes helping you much easier.

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I was just about to say that too. It’s very hard to help someone when they are asking “how do i fix this” with no information or picture of what they need to fix. I see this a lot not just with building, but a lot with programming too.

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Please make sure to categorize your posts correctly, I understand that sometimes you don’t know where to post something, and that’s okay as long as it relates to the topic. But if you are discussing v5 in the post, and you mention that you are using v5. You post it in IQ, and the only thing you are doing for yourself is preventing someone who could help you from reading that post, and then you are getting worse, semi-correct answers as IQ kids try to figure out how to solve your problem.

This is not to say that v5 students and IQ students should not help each other out, however most of the time someone who has delt with the quirks of the system you are using are going to be much better at explaining how to do something.

Thanks,
-Blaziumm
(One of the last only IQ students on the forums :cry:)

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