Haim
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Appeal For Intellectual Integrity
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Mar 20, 2012 7:47 PM
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Paul A. Tanner, III Posted: Mar 20, 2012 9:57 AM
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7749186&tstart=0
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> Message was edited by: Paul A. Tanner III
I feel like Isaac Asimov.
In a biographical note, many years ago, Isaac Asimov admitted his own naivete by telling how it was not until graduate school that it had ever occurred to him that experimental data could be falsified and that anyone would ever do such a thing.
So, there is a feature in the web interface to Math-Teach that allows a correspondent to edit a memorandum he had already submitted to the forum. Something about this feature always bothered me, but I never troubled too much about it because I, myself, sometimes exploited the feature to correct spelling errors, typos, and <GASP!> even to change a word from time to time.
Until today, it had never occurred to me that, by means of this editing feature, anyone would alter the historical record of a conversation.
Sorry as I would be to see it go, the editing feature of the web interface must be immediately disabled! TO ALL MATH-TEACH CORRESPONDENTS WHO VALUE INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY, PLEASE ADD YOUR VOICES TO THIS REQUEST.
Haim
Shovel ready? What shovel ready?
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