Cheating? How can you cheat on Askpedia? I don't think people can cheat or are cheating on it.

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Depends on what you mean by cheating.

3 times, that's only because i believe in 3 strikes and your out.

also i think a mark of some sort should be put on a persons profile and beside there answers for a few weeks to a couple of months after caught cheating

I have not seen cheating that i recognized as such but i know it is quite possible because i know if i had such an inclination i could very easily do it myself .

if i saw it i would report it as soon as i found out how

no odd messages here.

what do you mean cheating? I don't know of any cheating can you even cheat on this anyways if you know something that we don't know i would say something.

Cheating breaks anyone's trust and confidence in the cheater, so how could you give a second chance with a broken confidence? To cheat once is more than enough. Besides, if people are allowed to cheat three times, for example, before being banned, who will avoid to use his/her two free chances to cheat without punishment? Cheating is thought by our parents in our most early childhood, and the establishment encourages cheating whenever the prize for the winner is bigger than the prize awarded for the player's moral values.

The answer to how many times is twice on the legal theory that every dog is entitled to one bite. But once if it is serious.
I have never reported cheating, but I would if I had the statistical evidence of it. My slow machine and dial-up probably do not allow that and I spend most of my time here trying to help by answering questions. But I would do what I could to make this a decent site.
I saw what I thought was cheating twice in the last few days. But that is evidence, not proof.
And I will be going to Europe next week and not taking a computer. (I can hear everybody cheering.) So someone else will have to do the job.
The owner operator of this site is very intelligent and probably knows a lot of what goes on.
Hope things will be fine when I get back.

questioners should responsibly revew their answers. If an answer is right and best and has max compliments, they can let it go auto into best answer. But too many times I've seen totally wrong answers go unreviewed into best choice, some to the part of potential harm in real advice given in Health answer seekers. When these are pulled from knowledge archives, alot of people will follow the mal-advice or see Askpedia as a wreckles or sham advert mech or unknowledgeable and seek other sights. Passage should either be checked before post, or a response for caution to correct by admin should be clearly available. Then all the thumbs up won't make a diff in questions that have an objective answer vs frilly opinion. There is danger in wreckless abandoned answeers that fall thru the cracks into success and propagation. Notice how some answers get thrown onto question as first there with chance to go on to best just from neglect or being sole answer.Sometimes they just answer "Don't Know". Some correlation to the question must be tallied, even if connected in humor.This is a crack through the liberty Askpedia has rung.Remember, archives are stil viable review advert source of recruitment, publicity and sponsorship.(though the dating site service ads are kind of chinc(e)y).By the way, more of you need to flag the obscenity questions and people posting ads for themselves(like the recent Chiropracter from Missouri/Pennsyl. He answered every sport/health/illness query with mention of the specific question content followed by the same template driven lead in to head and neck Chiropracty and his ability to get you in to someone. In case you do not know, this is unethical and illegeal, esp across state lines for stste licensed Med Pros, plus tacky, plus his diversions from serious problems fell into charlatanism. By the way, he was a commission based head hunter, which Boarded Professionals are boarded from participating in and associating with. Simply flag the inappropriate Q or A and click highlight it or select all copy it, go to bottom of that same question screen, select contact us(administration) and an e-mail window pre-addressed will come up. Just put the cursor in field and right click to pull up edit again, or hit edit and select paste, it goes in letter and then hit the window's send, and it's up to them now. 4 simple clicks 15-30 seconds, and AskP. keeps quality and clean.Thanx for the extra moment.

Cheating

With my observations on this cite, there are users who compliments the same user that gives answer to questions. Where as their have been other users who gave answer to the same question. I noticed this on a various of occasions. I have addressed this observation to AP. They couldn't give me a real answer..Why. The one that was receiving the compliment received the best answer for a reward question. The user doesn't compliment non reward question for whom answered the question. Let say that I answered a reward question and I know another AP user (friend, family member, contact) and asked them to compliment (by clicking the "thumb up") the question that I answered this placed me as the highest rate answer. Especially if the "asker" isn't familiar with AP system. I believe that some of us are not really clear on how the system works.

So based on my example this cheating. My eyes are watching for those compliments (thumb ups). Especially my questions. (Remember that anything that's created by "human being" there's always a way to crack it.

To all users especially "newbies" its important that you read AP frequent questions and answers. The Help link button located in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

I suppose it should be the 3 strikes and your out rule
but with the option for a straight banning if your caught doing something really naughty,

in every walk of life some people will try to find a way to cheat the system, they have too much time on thier hands and not enough compassion for the harder working honest people.