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Teachers in my High School caught students doing this several times. The teacher would go on the Answers sites the night of an assignment and incorrectly* answe

Teachers in my High School caught students doing this several times. The teacher would go on the Answers sites the night of an assignment and incorrectly* answer a question to catch the students cheating. Pretty clever on the teachers' part.

w1ntermute 14y ago
But also rather immoral, since they were abusing the site. What if someone else came along later and thought those answers were real?
- tedunangst 14y ago
  Then that someone learns a valuable lesson about the internet.
  - w1ntermute 14y ago
    That's no justification to sabotage a math Q&A site, especially if you're a teacher. Those teachers should feel ashamed of themselves.
    - tossacct 14y ago
      Please explain. Note, this is not a comment about the teacher. Nowhere in my comment do I reference the teacher. >>>That's no justification to sabotage a math Q&A site. I assume you mean: [learning a valuable lesson about the internet is] no justification to [knowingly post an incorrect answer to] a math Q&A site. I disagree, and I think that the justification the OP mentioned is an excellent one, for one very specific type of sabotage (posting an incorrect answer). I will try to paraphrase their justification: Someone who reads an answer on a math Q&A site and does not check to make sure the answer is correct will learn "a valuable lesson about the internet" if the answer turns out to be incorrect. I assume that the lesson could be that "thinking that an idea is true doesn't make that idea true true". A more specific lesson about math could be "check your work". In my mind, these lessons are both valid justifications for the one specific type of sabotage mentioned. Some people believe that checking your work strengthens your math skills, so the people who checked to see if the answer was correct or incorrect may have improved their math skills as well.

w1ntermute 14y ago

But also rather immoral, since they were abusing the site. What if someone else came along later and thought those answers were real?

tedunangst 14y ago
Then that someone learns a valuable lesson about the internet.
- w1ntermute 14y ago
  That's no justification to sabotage a math Q&A site, especially if you're a teacher. Those teachers should feel ashamed of themselves.
  - tossacct 14y ago
    Please explain. Note, this is not a comment about the teacher. Nowhere in my comment do I reference the teacher. >>>That's no justification to sabotage a math Q&A site. I assume you mean: [learning a valuable lesson about the internet is] no justification to [knowingly post an incorrect answer to] a math Q&A site. I disagree, and I think that the justification the OP mentioned is an excellent one, for one very specific type of sabotage (posting an incorrect answer). I will try to paraphrase their justification: Someone who reads an answer on a math Q&A site and does not check to make sure the answer is correct will learn "a valuable lesson about the internet" if the answer turns out to be incorrect. I assume that the lesson could be that "thinking that an idea is true doesn't make that idea true true". A more specific lesson about math could be "check your work". In my mind, these lessons are both valid justifications for the one specific type of sabotage mentioned. Some people believe that checking your work strengthens your math skills, so the people who checked to see if the answer was correct or incorrect may have improved their math skills as well.