While I had heard of them before ( https://www.cracked.com/personal-ex...elping-people-cheat-at-college-for-money.html being one such thing. RIP the once amusing version of cracked.) the following popped up as something to watch so thought I would
Short version. There are services out there that allow people at least theoretically engaging with seemingly any level of education to have essays written for them, some even claiming to mimic your writing style. Apparently they have also got to be quite popular in higher education.
Now I am years out of school, and I doubt anybody that reads more than a few posts of mine (never mind that I do work for) would take issue with a claim that I am quite content to write my own essays even then (to say nothing of my general opinion that grades are boring and I would rather learn something), but I am curious about it all.
Anybody had an experience with the services, seen others use such services* or indeed written for such services? One of the articles I saw had some engaged in writing the things claim they did it for any number of subjects, which I both don't doubt but also have some doubts as to the end results (XKCD because why not https://xkcd.com/451/ ) but in most cases I would rather have a subject matter expert.
*in a previous discussion on nootropics aka smart drugs ( https://gbatemp.net/threads/nootropics-smart-drugs-thoughts-and-opinions.399108/ ) some reckoned it would provide an unfair advantage. While I still think grading on a curve is stupid then even with such things I was not inclined to follow along with such logic. This however makes curves even more dubious a concept and thus I would actually deem it an unfair advantage, even if the end result you got/handed in was drivel. By extension no chance of catching me writing for such things -- as it stands then even around here I make it a policy to not do someone's homework for them, though I will help them along in the right direction. Closest I would get there is having a discussion/bouncing ideas with someone and checking the end results of their writing, which is what people do in universities if they are doing it right, is pretty much the definition of peer review for even higher end academics, and much the same in almost every profession I have otherwise interacted with (certainly science, medicine, law and engineering. General accounting not so much but forensic accounting most definitely.).
I don't know that I agree with legal sanctions for engaging with or running such services, even without the tissue thin veneer of "they are inspiration works", though content enough for said universities to say "goodbye my son" should they catch on (don't know what goes about operating a sting as it were, though that is mainly because you would be facilitating it for others at least and that is dubious).
Short version. There are services out there that allow people at least theoretically engaging with seemingly any level of education to have essays written for them, some even claiming to mimic your writing style. Apparently they have also got to be quite popular in higher education.
Now I am years out of school, and I doubt anybody that reads more than a few posts of mine (never mind that I do work for) would take issue with a claim that I am quite content to write my own essays even then (to say nothing of my general opinion that grades are boring and I would rather learn something), but I am curious about it all.
Anybody had an experience with the services, seen others use such services* or indeed written for such services? One of the articles I saw had some engaged in writing the things claim they did it for any number of subjects, which I both don't doubt but also have some doubts as to the end results (XKCD because why not https://xkcd.com/451/ ) but in most cases I would rather have a subject matter expert.
*in a previous discussion on nootropics aka smart drugs ( https://gbatemp.net/threads/nootropics-smart-drugs-thoughts-and-opinions.399108/ ) some reckoned it would provide an unfair advantage. While I still think grading on a curve is stupid then even with such things I was not inclined to follow along with such logic. This however makes curves even more dubious a concept and thus I would actually deem it an unfair advantage, even if the end result you got/handed in was drivel. By extension no chance of catching me writing for such things -- as it stands then even around here I make it a policy to not do someone's homework for them, though I will help them along in the right direction. Closest I would get there is having a discussion/bouncing ideas with someone and checking the end results of their writing, which is what people do in universities if they are doing it right, is pretty much the definition of peer review for even higher end academics, and much the same in almost every profession I have otherwise interacted with (certainly science, medicine, law and engineering. General accounting not so much but forensic accounting most definitely.).
I don't know that I agree with legal sanctions for engaging with or running such services, even without the tissue thin veneer of "they are inspiration works", though content enough for said universities to say "goodbye my son" should they catch on (don't know what goes about operating a sting as it were, though that is mainly because you would be facilitating it for others at least and that is dubious).
