Well I'll just have to disagree with you there (does anyone have that lovely link to that old post "Agora's product is our history"?). Especially as "got away with it" included "the Herald noticed, but wanted to see if it was a substantial part of the scam, and it was really hard for em to refrain from objecting." Oooh... is that a meta-scam? "fool the Herald into thinking this pertained to eir agreement to allow scams, when the real scam was that it wasn't a scam at all?" :P
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:44 AM Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It wasn’t really a scam in the end, just apathy. > > In my honest opinion I believe they got it fairly though. I’m not going to > strongly oppose or support an intent to change it. Aren’t normal scam wins > a subversion of what “winning” is too? Its all pretty subjective in end, > and I personally don’t care much about the holiness of certain titles, I > actually find it very entertaining that they actually have managed to get > it. > > I have an essay or two on Blognomic which I could try to submit to Agora (I > honestly enjoy doing them a lot), and personally, having others scam the > academic titles doesn’t demotivate me at all from still wanting to do more > essays, if that was a concern to keep the “purity” of the academic titles. > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 19:51, Kerim Aydin <ke...@uw.edu> wrote: > > > Just a little comment on the below - I was seeing this as part of the > > contest so was purposefully not objecting (I did the same for Gaelan's > > apathy intent). To my knowledge, Degrees have never been scammed and > > it would be great (speaking wearing my Herald's hat) to keep that > > record "clean" and reflecting of true academic achievement, hence a > > cleanup proposal. I'll leave it to others whether they mind enough to > > propose an undo the blots or Indigo ribbons. > > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 7:02 AM Kerim Aydin <ke...@uw.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I submit the following proposal, No Academic Fraud, AI-1: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > The A.N Degrees for D. Margaux and twg are hereby revoked. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > >
