Rules and road map...

[gatormotorsports]

When using the forum, please follow these simple rules:


1. Be respectful of others. Do not call people or their ideas dumb. There’s a fine line between what is perceived as crazy and hugely innovative. Take the time to express your criticisms in a clear and polite manner.

2. Do not use profanity.

3. Write with college-level grammar and spelling skills. If you’re weak in this area, use a spell checker. These threads will be around for our team to use for years. You don’t want to appear less intelligent than you are.

4. Use the SEARCH function to check for similar threads before starting a new one. Please do not start multiple threads on similar topics. The moderators will have enough work to do without needing to collate a bunch of related threads every week.

5. Stay on topic. The technical and administrative forums should only contain relevant posts. There is a non-technical forum for all other types of discussions. Please keep the proper posts in the proper forum.

6. If you link to another online source, please save the photo or webpage on the GMS server in case the original files you’re linking to get deleted. There will be a folder on the main GMS server titled ‘GMS forum’ for this purpose. Few things are more frustrating than finding what you think is the exact information source you’re seeking, to only find out it’s a broken link.


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If you're a new UF SAE team member, the following links should help bring you up to speed on what this program is really about:

SAE in a Nutshell Competition & Vehicle Rules
Formal FSAE Forum (technical updates, etc.)
FSAE.com: HUGE FSAE Technical Forum
FSTotal.com: Formula SAE/Student News
Other Teams’ Websites (great for researching new ideas or questioning why our team does something a particular way)


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If you're a UF alumnus, we hope you can find time to peruse a few threads, offer insight from your past experience on the team and in industry and help mentor some of our new team members who are seeking many of the same things you got out of the program:

* a chance to apply what’s taught (or not!) in the classroom
* a chance to step out of their circle of comfort and try something new; not just imitate what they’ve seen
* a chance to take risks, make mistakes and learn from them
* a competitive team environment in which the students can learn perseverance, integrity and commitment
* a project where the students have to justify their design choices and balance them with real-world costs
* etc.

You can find the technical discussion section of our forum here.

There’s also a section dedicated for you reconnect with past team members and proudly take a look back at where you found the program and where you left it.

Thank you for your continued support! We’re very excited to see how this works for our team!

Mike B & Sean N

[Will Boardman]

I have personally had trouble interpreting the topic icons on the forum, so I thought I would post up a list of what they mean:

Two general points
- Red icons are unread items, blue/grey are read
- A star on any topic means you have posted in it

- Announcement
- Sticky topic
- Read topic
- Unread topic
- Read topic that you have posted in
- Unread topic that you have posted in
- Hot topic
- Locked topic
- Moved topic
- Forum with subforums (which have been read)
- Forum with subforums (which are unread)
- Link forum