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Do we let folks wander on in from the net and ask homework questions?

Letting this happen unchecked produced some nasty results on usenet. Do we delete them? Do we let them run full of smartass answers they deserve? Do we do their homework for them?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM THE AMAZING RANDY!!!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah! Cause mostly the answer Femme Nappa Vennette or however it goes, or involves robots and kittens.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

1 post in and already derailed.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the answer is!

Learn me how to write proper.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as they allow me to put one of their eyes out with hot pokers for being so stupid and so lazy.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the strong reactions HMWMH (check out the palindrome, pals) threads provoke are forces of nature. there's no point trying to set guidelines for a hurricane, all's to do is to predict, catalogue, and clean up the mess.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chud.com/graphics9/pun1.jpg

I punish the guilty!

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure how we could prevent this happening, and I'm unclear as to what the nasty results might be. I'm not inclined to try to help, but I don't mind joining a discussion if there's something interesting there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes I want to know what happened on USENET.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

All I knew was that on Usenet, in a lot of groups Ive seen, homework-help asking dweebs get what they deserve - either a blunt "we wont help" or deliberate and subtle evil in the form of misleading replies. I think this is great!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I now realize how obsessed Nicolars has become with comix. It'll be nothing but Jack Kirby quotes from now on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's a toss up - you delete them and you get meta discussions and mini-scandals, you leave 'em alone and you get an annoying mess and tedium (whereas a glut of lovey dovey threads would only produce tweedium).

I dunno - discourage it in the FAQ maybe (not that anyone reads that like, ever), tolerate a little, delete obvious duplicates - basically do whatever seems low key and a fair judgement.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, are you deliberately misleading us? Kirby didn't write dialogue, Stan Leee did.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I stand corrected. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My question is how the homeworkers find ILX in the first place. Are they drawn here by the sheer magnitude of our collective intelligence or what?

― Prude (Prude), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll stop giving out the URL in class. Sorry.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack Kirby dialogue >>>>>>> Stan Lee dialogue

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

My question is how the homeworkers find ILX in the first place. Are they drawn here by the sheer magnitude of our collective intelligence or what?

We keep coming up higher and higher in google.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack Kirby dialogue >>>>>>> Stan Lee dialogue

But in Bizarro world...!

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever, I'm not even really into comix (except New X-Men).

All I'm saying is that while trollish threads like the ones C*lum starts are mildly annoying and dumb, something about the sheer laziness and stupidity of the homework threads make me want to go on a kill-crazy vigilante rampage. People like that represent everything that's wrong in the world and are just taking up space.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't really see a problem with it,surely the threads can be just be ignored
what are the nasty things that have happened on usenet?

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly what Nicolars describes her urges to be. At least that was generally it in the comp.lang area when my friends tried it. Every year the 1st and 2nd year students gave it a shot.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Plz help what is the capital of Mesopotamia thx in advance?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

So I guess my logic thread was a bad one :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

No, that's different -- you're not just googling a site hoping someone will fill in all the blanks for you.

I know my hatred of the stupid homework kids is completely irrational, but I can't help it.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a greater emphasis, in the era of floods of information on the surface level being available all over the Net, in how to sort and judge that info rather than necessarily writing rote papers on what is found. That's a part of many college level comp courses but I think it should be incorporated in high school instruction more thoroughly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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