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Question: What is the purpose of "Report Abuse?" and what happens when this link is clicked?

For example if someone asks history questions in a Math group would that qualify as abuse?

Answer 1

well maybe first time person didn't know about it, but if it repeats, yes then it's abuse

Answer 2

Report Abuse notifies the moderators of violations

yes..wrong post normally qualifies to notify the moderators..but it's better to give a person a heads up first

Answer 3

Good morning,

As the repliers above noted the Report Abuse button notifies all of the moderators that there is something that needs our attention. We get an email blast, etc, etc. Please do feel free to use it for any behavior that violates the Code of Conduct. Additionally, don't feel like it has to be a first resort. As lgbasallote mentions above, we welcome users to try and deal with this one-on-one before involving us in the event of a wrong post. Many of those are honest mistakes.

However, if it's something more serious (obvious spam, meanness, etc) - hit that button please. We can't watch everything going on throughout the day, so we depend on the community to be our eyes.

Let me know if you have any additional questions.

Answer 4

Do you consider posting test questions and answers a violation of the conduct code? It seems there are awful lot of people who use the site just to get help cheating...

Answer 5

Yes, that would be a violation of honor codes so we would typically consider that a CoC violation. But it's difficult to tell the difference between homework problems and test problems on the site, so we try to err on the side of caution. That said, it is our policy to suspend or even ban users who are doing this if we are provided with reasonable evidence that is happening.

Answer 6

a good solution to that problem is to probably encourage answerers not to give answers...just start the solution and let the asker answer the rest..that way the asker still learned though he/she cheated right? :D

Answer 7

I wish it was that easy. ;)

Answer 8

me too =)) sadly a lot of people would give direct answers to get medals...or because the asker was a girl lol..

Answer 9

Atam: I would like to point out that posting answers is only wrong in those situation were answers should not be posted.

Case in point are certain MIT OCW courses where:
a. Institutional support does not exist (there are effectivly a rerun of a course)
b. There are no exams and no scoring whatsoever

I think one should be very careful about generalising on this point.

Answer 10

As @Igbasallote already mentioned the violation of "don't just post answers" - especially, when someone is in the middle of getting them there and spent some time already - is soo common. This can be really demotivating and I wondered how to deal with it a couple of times already, 'cause one does not want to resort to moderators, but on the other hand: as soon as someone posts an answer, they aren't very likely to read the follow-ups or listen :-/