Hi Erin,
Nice to "meet" you once
First of all I am actually a calm person and nobody who's looking for trouble on purpose. That's why I don't want to discuss whether it's illegal or not to post exam questions and ask others to solve them for you (although I consider it as embarrasing at an econ-
PHD forum where even adcoms are lurking sometimes... but ok it's not my forum). I also don't want to discuss whether the guy who did that was cheating or not...(which he did and I second snappy again ... do I get a warning for that AGAIN?) Honestly: I don't like it if people betray but I have more important things to worry about these days as you might imagine...
I want to talk to you about something I consider as more annoying. Have a look at the whole thread which caused this turmoil... Actually I think that it was a healthy debate and
the OP even understood my point (the thread right before the moderators intervention) before this strange moderator intervened and sold warnings like hotcakes.. Come on ... have a look at the posts... are they worth to be "punished".. ?
I mean the warning I received says: "There have been other instances where moderator's actions in this forum have been questioned. These are causing concern to Erin and it is unfortunate that you have chosen to act in a way that may increase his concern." .... R U KIDDING? Do you want to say that questioning your moderators is something we shouldn't do? Is that the way you want to run your business which is solely based on its reputation and the fact that students enjoy it to be here?
In my opinion snappy, me and the others tried to end this cheap trial to cheat in order to keep the academic standard of your forum at a decent level. I expect that the moderator who gave the warnings to me and snappy revises his decision, starts to behave more respectful towards those guys who really keep this forum running (i.e. the members) and apologizes. We aren't kids anymore and threatening others with: "I'll tell my big brother what you did"-kind-of-behaviour should not be the level of our discussion.
Last point: i understand that good forums need moderators like a soccer game needs referees. Maybe it's the spirit of my avatar but a good referee is not the one who blows the whistle continuously but one who arranges an attractive but still a FAIR game...
I hope I was respectful and made my point as clear as possible. Given that people think about the application process 24/7 these days someone who tries to cheat in order to achieve a better performance relative to others is not that popular these days at the econ-phd forum. Sorry erin if this causes you concerns but if something like this cheating-thing happens again and one of your moderators (
NOT asquare! he does a great job most of the time) defends it I will criticise it again... of course it's your forum and you may ban me for that...
thx