What constitutes cheating?
Besides spam, the other big no-no is to try to manipulate voting. We’re not going to post an exhaustive list of forbidden tactics (lest we give people ideas), but the two major ones are: • Don’t use shill accounts to multiply your vote • Don’t be part of a “voting clique” A voting clique is a group of people who send links to their submissions around via message, IM, or any other means, with the expectation of “you guys vote for my stuff and I’ll vote for yours.
Cheating includes receiving or providing assistance during an exam when one is supposed to work alone, whether the exam is in-class or take-home. This includes looking at and/or copying from another’s exam, sharing answers with another (whether electronically, in writing, by talking, or by other methods), and “checking” answers by looking at other’s papers. Cheating also includes using unauthorized materials or equipment during an exam (e.g., notes, calculator or computer, textbook, the Internet, cell phone, etc.), and failing to stop work when time is called on an exam. Other very serious kinds of cheating on exams include (1) having another person take an exam for the student; (2) taking an exam for another student; (3) stealing another’s work (homework, test, lab, etc.) either before or after that work has been graded; and (4) altering a graded test or assignment and submitting the altered work for additional credit. The minimum appropriate sanction for any of these serious violatio
