I’m sorry if I offended anyone with my request for help with cheating. I’m a bad person and deserve to go to hell. In the mean time, maybe someone could fill me in on the rules of this forum. I haven’t found a section that goes over what is encouraged or discouraged so it’s hard for a sinner like me to tell.
Anyone willing to help this iniquitous cheating bastard find his way back to where the keepers of this forum reside in ceaseless and unblighted moral righteousness would secure their place in heaven at the right hand of Jesus (God’s right hand is full) by doing so.
Thanks in advance,
jongri
Read the sticky threads in each forum and check out the FAQ
The thread in question.
With respect, green_bladder, I can’t see anything in the FAQ thread you linked to which speaks directly about posters asking for homework help, cheating, or plagarising.
Even so, yes: it is frowned upon. If it wouldn’t be allowed in the educational institution attended, it wouldn’t be allowed here, IMHO.
Homework help is policed by the consensus of the posters on the board. If you’re asking for help in finding the information, or of a minor point (e.g., “What’s the difference between e.g., and i.e.?”), you’ll probably get it. If you ask someone to do the work for you, most posters will refuse.
Asking to plagiarize, though, is a violation of the rules of every college in the world. I would think that it would be obvious that the board won’t allow this sort of think, any more than it’d allow soliciting for sale of illegal drugs.
There’s always the fallback: Rule No.1 - Don’t be a jerk.
You should also be aware that many Dopers have an, ah, peculiar sense of humor. You’re lucky that you just got your thread closed, rather than turning in a paper which (unbeknownst to you) went into a digression on the mating habits of fundamentalist Rastafarian tory groudhogs, or some such, in th middle of the third page.