Hello
First of all, thank you for expressing your point of view. As I said at the beginning, I find the efforts of the technical committee to get feedback very admirable and I consider it a positive step forward. We should thank the technical committee for this.
If I may, I would like to talk first about fraud and deception. I think I have expressed my key sentence in this regard. “THE CULTURAL DILEMMA ONLY SOLVES WITH A CULTURAL
SOLUTION”. The problem of fraud and deception is a cultural problem and has a cultural solution. When we say that lying should become an ugly and disgusting behavior, it means that we should turn lying into an ugly and disgusting behavior through advertising and culture. Sometimes this is beyond our control (because it is very much related to the education, culture, and general behavior of the people and the government of each country), but sometimes we can do behaviors that devalue fraud, deception, and lies.
It is very clear that we cannot solve this “cultural” problem completely. Rather, we can only take a step in this regard.
The technical committee has now promoted “knowledge sharing” as a “value” by awarding a team that shares its knowledge. This is a positive and correct cultural action. But it is possible to go beyond this.
For example, the way of holding competitions can be changed in such a way that “sharing knowledge” becomes a tangible value. For this, we have to design the way of holding competitions and its rules in such a way that the teams need to communicate with each other to win. On top of that, it can be made that the teams are willing to share their knowledge with others in order to win the competitions. (Note that willingness does not mean suppression or coercion, a team can try to succeed without sharing its knowledge, but it has to go through a more difficult path to do so)
These goals can be achieved by performing gamification on the way of holding competitions. (I must say that although my specialty and education are in CE and I have more than 12 years of experience participating in RoboCup Junior Soccer as a mentor, I have a board game design and game development company and therefore I am familiar with game concepts .)
In any case, around 2018, I proposed a new way of holding a competition, which is old and can be improved a lot. Also, I have clarified the schedule required to hold it, which can be seen in this post.
I would be very happy to discuss more about the rulemaking methods. I think that if we reach a document in this regard, it can define our principles and method and determine the way for us.
I will be happy to receive your comments.
In any case, thank you very much for your time.