From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-07-01T03:50:38+09:00
Subject: Re: A movie Renamer

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On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:46 AM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> And for what it's worth, regardless of what the humorous image says,
> copyright
> infringement isn't piracy. Piracy is armed robbery on the high seas.
>
>
lol


> Another place this is done
> is with homework questions -- someone will point out that something looks
> like
> a homework question. I don't always notice something wrong with the
> question
> itself, so I'm glad when people point it out, because I don't want to help
> with homework questions.
>
>
I'm ambivalent about these cases.

I tend to think "the student knows better than I do what they need, I'll
just give them all the tools and let them choose for themselves so as to get
maximum benefit" but lately I wonder if people simply can't make good
decisions, even if they want to. In that case, maybe having the answer so
available causes them to choose the easy approach of just taking the answer
rather than the best approach of taking the piece of information they need
to be able to solve the problem.

Another place you see this is with troll feeding, people who mean well and
know what they need to do, but just can't bring themselves to do it. Same
thing, I think. In that case, I decided, that instead of trusting people to
learn enough to stop feeding the trolls, its best to just remove the trolls.
And similarly, instead of trusting people to not just copy a solution when
its not what they need, it may be best to just not provide the solution.

IDK, like I said, ambivalent.

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