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Yale has the same student feedback/rating data available in their official online coursebook. From what I understand, ybbplus/coursetable was simply aggregating
by Smudge 13y ago
Yale has the same student feedback/rating data available in their official online coursebook. From what I understand, ybbplus/coursetable was simply aggregating it in a way that made it easier for students to use. If there is something fundamentally wrong with subjective ratings, it seems strange that Yale would provide it in one context and censor it in another.
- khawkins 13y agoMaintaining data integrity is probably fairly important to them. By allowing a separate service which is used by a significant portion of the students, the system is open to serious exploitation. Professors can get black-balled by disgruntled system administrators or hackers, just by screwing with the numbers. Yale owning both the data and the interface is understandably important to them, though this might be an opportunity for the creators to work with the administration to reform the current system.
- Crito 13y agoBlackmail is illegal, and intentionally screwing with ratings is almost certainly libel. Both of those hypothetical can be dealt with by the law already; I don' think there is much sense in warping copyright law to protect you from the possibility of those things happening.