First I understand pointing people in the right direction. String launcher - #2 by kmmohn This post however was not in the right direction. And I don’t understand why you didn’t address that, but chose to talk about RTM. Of course, a forum about reading the manual would require them to Read the Manual. I decided to write my first reply however when 2 posts, in a row, had comments. Now, this is where I probably should have sent a message to you so you can understand where I’m coming from, and why. If you want to we still can.
About gatekeeping I had one kind person tell me that solutions were set by the forum creator, not the respondent. If the solutions were set by a respondent, to close a thread prematurely then I think you can see how I got to the inference of gatekeeping information. However, this is not the case and I am sorry about that. I have never posted anything in this forum for 2 years, and I doubt I have said a lot of things in this forum. When I see a regular like Xenon27 or 9motor gang in a thread I know they will help anyone to find the information they need. When I see your comment I don’t, and as a regular with so much time on your hand and knowledge I know the vex community would be better if you put an extra minute of time into those responses. I know you can lead a camel to water, but you can’t make one drink, but that doesn’t excuse telling someone to look at basic robot ideas when not a single bit of helpful information is in those instructions for( what he was looking for) string launcher. If fact a string launcher is commonly used with pneumatics, rubber bands, and a coil. None of those were used in the vex build manual. however, as an alternative, you could do one of 3 things. Don’t comment, clearly, you are proficient with understanding the manual but if a question requires an in-depth explanation maybe your “look at official vex robots” is not the right answer. 2 go a little bit for in-depth. I know you say look reveal videos, but many link a video or two, because this fellow post may not know of many teams (we don’t know this number, but we can assume he knows a few dozen by just looking up reveal vex spin up, but there are some really good teams that are not pushed by the youtube algorithm that much that could be better for some, for example, gold robotics only have 100 subscribers and there update videos are great information for how to go about using a large team and deciding who does what.) but you as a regular may know some pretty obscure teams that could help other people. Or 3, and this is what I was alluding to, maybe @ someone who could help. Again this is all for the health and goodwill of the vex community.