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Originally Posted by Moose
Mugs, you're making three assumptions I consider to be untenable.
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For me, the most problematic assumption is that the respondents will be able to see through what are requests for help with homework, and what are not. I know I'm not particularly good at spotting them, though I have on occasion.
I do remember what were clearly, in retrospect, disguised requests for help with homework, posted by
regular posters
outside the Q&A forum. It took me a while to figure it out, though, and what I ultimately found most distasteful were not the requests themselves, but the fact that they were dissimulated, and that the 'strategy' of the requesters was to post vague, controversial questions, and then sit back and watch the argument unfold and (no doubt) take notes.