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I think I am going to start a degree-granting "University." I will give credit for life accomplishments, but my standards will be especially narrow and contrive
by raganwald 16y ago
I think I am going to start a degree-granting "University." I will give credit for life accomplishments, but my standards will be especially narrow and contrived. I will give credit for:
- Commits to open source projects
- Answers on Stack Overflow
- Karma on Hacker News
I will also require students to write essays, however I will permit the student to submit blog posts as essays. I will use PageRank or upvotes by Hacker News to determine the letter grade awarded for the "essay."
- delinka 16y agoI wonder how long it will be before someone establishes a market for "aged and authoritative" user accounts on those sites. Oh, wait...
- jbenz 16y agoCan someone fill me in here? Is there a marketplace for selling user accounts that I don't know about?
- delinka 16y agoI do not have first hand knowledge of such a market, but the idea seems like a natural extension of the markets to sell matured player accounts for online games. If there's a benefit to having a well-seasoned reputation associated with a login, then there's a market for selling that login.
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- bartonfink 16y agoI've heard multiple cases of people selling Slashdot accounts with interesting/low user ID's on eBay, so clearly there's some market for that. It's a stupid product, but clearly the market is there.
- nbaumann 16y agoI think that degree will have more value than a lot of degrees handed out in decent universities. I would definitely enroll!
- blacksmythe 16y ago>> - Commits to open source projects This is only adding value if you rate the value of the open source contributions. >> - Answers on Stack Overflow >> - Karma on Hacker News These are essentially peer reviewed ratings, so the same comment does not apply.