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hey just wanted to say thanks and that i had a final chat with people around the project. Their advice was not to go open source but with a completely rational

hey just wanted to say thanks and that i had a final chat with people around the project. Their advice was not to go open source but with a completely rational reason. If this was open to all then students whose projects are to be checked by the system, those same students could download the source or the binaries and then try and game the system to accept plagiarized documents. Thanks again all the same and I will use your suggestion for a bunch of other ideas and projects that I will be starting work on very soon

YuriNiyazov 16y ago
I am sorry, but that's an absolutely ridiculous, irrational reason. Your system is, presumably, a large piece of complex technology. In order to understand how to circumvent it, a significant amount of time must be spent understanding what it does. Students that want to submit plagiarized documents are lazy, and if they would stoop so low as to plagiarize, they would never in a million years spend the time figuring out how to circumvent your system.
- kiriappeee 16y ago
  haha fair enough. maybe im just paranoid about how the minds of people work as ive seen it. We use turitin at our university to check originality of work of students. That takes a document and matches it against a huge database of their own that they maintain. Students can't use that service (unless they pay the fee which they mostly don't although I know a few who have done so) because they would look at the areas that have been marked as unoriginal and would make a few changes to make it go undetected. at least that's how it goes. The system I have right now so far also highlights which areas specifically does the style change and in what way and by what percentage. It's being built keeping in mind a user base that should be able to get information with just two clicks . So it shouldn't be too hard to change the style here and there to game the system. But I do raise hands in acceptance of your viewpoint here and call a truce (yes drama much) until I actually build a product before really making a decision on everything. But I do honestly value your input a LOT. thanks again :)

YuriNiyazov 16y ago

I am sorry, but that's an absolutely ridiculous, irrational reason. Your system is, presumably, a large piece of complex technology. In order to understand how to circumvent it, a significant amount of time must be spent understanding what it does. Students that want to submit plagiarized documents are lazy, and if they would stoop so low as to plagiarize, they would never in a million years spend the time figuring out how to circumvent your system.

kiriappeee 16y ago
haha fair enough. maybe im just paranoid about how the minds of people work as ive seen it. We use turitin at our university to check originality of work of students. That takes a document and matches it against a huge database of their own that they maintain. Students can't use that service (unless they pay the fee which they mostly don't although I know a few who have done so) because they would look at the areas that have been marked as unoriginal and would make a few changes to make it go undetected. at least that's how it goes. The system I have right now so far also highlights which areas specifically does the style change and in what way and by what percentage. It's being built keeping in mind a user base that should be able to get information with just two clicks . So it shouldn't be too hard to change the style here and there to game the system. But I do raise hands in acceptance of your viewpoint here and call a truce (yes drama much) until I actually build a product before really making a decision on everything. But I do honestly value your input a LOT. thanks again :)