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I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by raxxor »

jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

Take the project, do your finals and then throw the project again if you don't want to take the legal course.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by lazyasciiart »

KPGv2 wrote: post #308
croemer wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, really? So you just pay for a year instead of 4 years? Why do people not do that more?

Because you have to go to a high school that offers special courses, you have to be willing to work much harder than the average student, and you have to know about this trick when you're like 15yo and comprehend how much $$$ and time it's going to save you in the long run. I fortunately did take advantage of this, and so did my wife. Thought we took advantage of it so we could do cheap study abroad and not have to t…

In Washington, high school students can enrol in community college courses through their school, and count them for both high school and college credit.

https://www.seattlecolleges.edu/running-start

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by Over2Chars »

jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

@jdkaim do the project as a way to say you're sorry, give them the work uncompensated (effectively they're charging you the value of your degree, I'd assume that's not trivial).

Once you have your degree, you can go from there, hire a lawyer, sue for uncompensated labor (something about minimum wage laws, I think, requires they pay you), and so on. Maybe even some emotional distress.

But hey, IANAL and ya gotta do what you think is right.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by fredgrott »

jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

given the type of UW blackmail you need to contact a lawyer to protect your right to an education finishing your studies....do not delay that step

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by rocqua »

grumple wrote: post #260
pockmarked19 wrote: post #5

That’s just how colleges are. I once reported to my alma mater that a somewhat obscure (but obviously public) link seemed to trigger the download of a zip of student details for no discernible reason (I think it was a WIP site), and they immediately threatened to call the FBI on me. I just sort of laughed it off, but I decided that was the last time I was going to initiate any sort of contact with them if I didn’t ab…

Isn't it weird how universities are so hostile towards their students? Some professors are genuinely interested in developing students and are great, but many faculty and administrators - and the overall tone of the schools - are draconian.

Research universities have plenty of professors who are there to do research. But they often still have a teaching responsibility. For those professors, teaching students is a mandatory thing they only do so they can keep their job doing what they actually want: research.

Those professors aren't great teachers, and I think we shouldn't blame them for it. Instead we should blame the system that forces them to do something they aren't good at.

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Post by n144q »

jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

> I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

I would never ever trust those hypocritical bureaucrats in universities. They have power over your degree and your life, but you have nothing. They are businessmen and politicians (some of which actually had/will have a political life before/after the high education gig), not educators.

You high school teachers and university professors are real humans. Administrators are not.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by crystaln »

rexreed wrote: post #52
crystaln wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's also a good "first pass dentist" but I wouldn't use it for anything critical.

Why does this upset people so much?

Lawyers use these AI tools regularly. I use them constantly for legal advice and double check with lawyers. They are right at least as often as the lawyers.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

> the way they handled it makes me just want to walk away.

Assuming you mean the project, not your degree, that sounds reasonable but from your description it also sounds like they aren't willing to let you do that. Hence the advice to at least talk to a lawyer.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by grishka »

Meanwhile in my Russian university, everyone scraped whatever they wanted. As long as you didn't cause any harm or disruption to these systems, no one cared.

There were tests you had to take in a special classroom full of Sun thin clients. You had to register yourself for some time slot(s) to go there. Sometimes you had to go there in like 2 days to meet a deadline but there were no slots available. So, someone made an app that would continuously scrape that page and notify you when a slot for your chosen time is available. Saved my ass a couple times.

Re: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

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Post by btreecat »

jdkaim wrote: post #7

Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith. They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to…

Lawyer up
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