Question

How do you ensure someone does not take my answers?

Answer 1

What do you mean?

Answer 2

When I ask a question and work it out, how do you ensure someone does not come in and take may work?

Answer 3

Edit your question to a "." so people can't search it up.

Answer 4

@tdain

Answer 5

Ah, do you mean someone in the future who was taking the same class as you?

Answer 6

Well the only way is the delete your responses, and then even edit your question. :P

The normal users will not be able to cheat off of your work, but moderators can still see what was deleted and editted. :)

Answer 7

editing out the content of your posts is not considered acceptable behaviour and is suspect of trying to hide that you received help here, or cheated.

Answer 8

the best way to avoid people from 'taking your answers' is to make the solution process a generality that you cna then apply the specifics to at your own leisure.

Answer 9

Well as long as users are actually learning in the process by viewing a old post, that is ok...but then again, that is unlikely. As Amistre mentioned, you can always make a post on a question similar to your homework and work it out that way.

Answer 10

I don't understand your concern. Could you explain? We are here to share our knowledge and skills. The site rewards people for doing that. Am I to understand that you don't want others to benefit from the knowledge you have gained? or the explanation that this community helped you derive????

Answer 11

I think it is when someone gets help from your own work findings, but I thought that was the purpose of openstudy, to help others out.

Answer 12

@preetha I think the user is just concerned that others will search up the same question the user had done on google in the future. The user most likely thinks that the person viewing it will just scroll down the post and take the answer at the bottom without benefiting or learning from the process (not actually looking at the explanation).

I've seen several cases of this in the past, observing users jump from month old posts to even older posts and medaling the person that helped, but only staying in those said posts for less than a minute each time (even when the post is extensive in its explanation).

Answer 13

no, the asker has a question

and you have to show work for such a question

you have to also make up examples for it, etc

and the asker doesn't want someone to copy him

it could be his classmate or it could be a future kid

Answer 14

this user don't want others to have good grades

Answer 15

others will take the answers, and be also high in the class,

Answer 16

Undeserved grades come with unearned free work copied from the internet. It leads to unearned success. It leads to unfairity.

Answer 17

Seems like you asked him personally @TheSmartOne XD
I wouldn't have known any fine details :P

Answer 18

nah, why would someone be worried of someone copying

solve: ax + by = c for y

answer choices: blah blah

some new user: c is the answer