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the_ignored
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Posted - 11/18/2010 :  10:19:33  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message  Reply with Quote
As PZ Myers noted, this is really cynical.

There are a few "money" paragraphs in there, though. I'll let you find them.

No cheating by looking at Myers' page first; he highlights them.




>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.

ktesibios
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505 Posts

Posted - 11/19/2010 :  19:53:00   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send ktesibios a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Read the comments on PZ's post. The same douchebag who wrote about how he manufactures bogus papers for cheating students is over there now, trying to justify himself. His arguments seem to boil down to "I'm not that bad- I'm not really hurting anyone", "The system sucks so what's wrong with cheating it?" "I didn't agree to be bound by scholastic ethics- it's my customers who did" "If you're a consumer you're dong more harm to the world than I am" and of course, the ever-popular "You're all a bunch of foul-mouthed meanies".

I don't think I've ever seen a more perfect example of yuppie-scum psychopathy, so geab some popcorn and go take a look.

"The Republican agenda is to turn the United States into a third-world shithole." -P.Z.Myers
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Robb
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1223 Posts

Posted - 11/22/2010 :  11:48:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Robb a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I like this:

"I say yes when asked if I have ever designed a perpetual-motion-powered time machine and documented my efforts in a peer-reviewed journal."


Of course he is just a guilty of cheating as the students that request his work. Does anyone have any idea's on how to stop this?

Edited to add: Do you think the author is real?

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington
Edited by - Robb on 11/22/2010 11:58:00
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the_ignored
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Posted - 11/23/2010 :  07:54:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message  Reply with Quote
That's what I've been wondering: How can a person impersonate an authority in so many fields and not get caught? Remember, there are supposedly actual professors in those fields who are grading the work that he sends in (in his clients name).

He claims he just needs google and wikipedia?

I call bullshit, to some extent at least.

>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.
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Smithford
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USA
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Posted - 12/08/2010 :  19:09:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Smithford's Homepage Send Smithford a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The thing is it IS possible to get papers like this past teachers. It happens when there are too many people signed into a program and not enough time or means in place for the teacher to learn his/her students' writing styles.

Teachers at Ashford Online (the only online college I have experience of) make no bones about the fact that they and the TA's run every paper through a program to see if the papers match any already published papers. HOWEVER unless one paper stands out as super good/cool/weird, there didn't seem to be any encouragement to move away from the 'cookie-cutter' answers online students gave/give.

To be fair, I only took 4 courses. I quit because it was too Stepford Robotic for me. Out of classes of 20 or more students the answers of at least 18 students were nearly identical in tone and content.

MHO.
Sammantha

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