Compulsive cheating

[ddr_addict]

OK, today at lunch me and my friends were discussing OCD, or obsessive compulsive disorder. Afterwards, I started thinking, what if it could be applied to cheating. For example, a person cheats because of the fact they can not stop or help themselves. They cheat because of no other reason. I dont know. Just a thought and wanted to see what anyone else thought.

[Saturos]

I suppose if the person always got away with cheating without consequences, they could just do it unconciously. That would be rather sad, though. o.o

[lightningstep]

RE: Compulsive cheating

wel, i think that you're on the right track. i thought of that too after considering why there were so many cheat websites with thousands of hits a day. but then, i think that cheating, like gambling and any narcotics, can be addictive. or gameshark and gamegenie wouldn't have made it this far.

-lightningstep.

[ddr_addict]

RE: Compulsive cheating

Yes, it is sad because it is something I see everyday, people that cheat and dont get caught or dont care. Well, they get to learn the hard way I guess.

[QreepyBORIS]

RE: Compulsive cheating

It is sometimes hard not to cheat when you don't have the answer to a question, you forgot to do a piece of homework, or you need some "help" writing. Some people do it because they can get away with it, some do it for grades. Some both. I think that's the only two categories you'd find in this.



But that being said, I do not do it myself.

[gardyloo]

RE: Compulsive cheating

Playing GTA I can't stop- it's like potato chips and masturbation!

[deltro300111]

RE: Compulsive cheating

Meh... at some points- I don't see cheating on homework as too big of a deal- by cheating on homework- the cheater hurts himself, and no one else. On tests, I don't particularly feel cheating is good though- but this is where teachers should amp up security.. scare the little bastards into not cheating... teachers make it far too easy to cheat, not checking hands, desks, shoes- phones, calculators (<3 Ti-83). I don't cheat... I just find easily exploitable loopholes- for example- programs... I program the formulas, that are hard/time-consuming to use, directly after the teacher hands out the test I don't consider this cheating, I know of it- and how to use it well enough to be able to tell the calculator how to do it for me, I think I deserve the time that I save using it.

[Saturos]

Re: RE: Compulsive cheating

Meh... at some points- I don't see cheating on homework as too big of a deal- by cheating on homework- the cheater hurts himself, and no one else. On tests, I don't particularly feel cheating is good though- but this is where teachers should amp up security.. scare the little bastards into not cheating... teachers make it far too easy to cheat, not checking hands, desks, shoes- phones, calculators (<3 Ti-83). I don't cheat... I just find easily exploitable loopholes- for example- programs... I program the formulas, that are hard/time-consuming to use, directly after the teacher hands out the test I don't consider this cheating, I know of it- and how to use it well enough to be able to tell the calculator how to do it for me, I think I deserve the time that I save using it.

You happened to go to a very laid back school, then.

When I was in school, everything you mentioned was checked. And as for the calculators, we were given a time period to use them in on a specific portion of a test, and if were we caught doing another part of the test with it, the test was thrown out and you are given a Saturday detention.

This was a public school, mind you.