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cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
May 10 2012 19:11 GMT
#1
Tried to get into a course at university, but it was full. I really wanted to get into it but had to hope that someone dropped it AND I'd be the first one to add it once they dropped it. Originally I was refreshing the "add course" screen every 15-30 min and trying to add myself, but I realized that wouldn't work. So I decided to write an AutoHotKey script. It moved my mouse, wrote in the 5 digit course code, hit enter, and repeated every 15 seconds. I left it on overnight.

When I woke up it said I had maxed out my course add attempts and to contact my registrar for assistance. I did, they said to come in for a chat. Not interested in handling it over the phone, though I asked. So I went in. They sat me down, told me I was a naughty boy who tried to add himself to a course 3000+ times in 10 hours, and banned me from registring for courses online this term.

My first autohotkey script. FML.

****
heliusx
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States2306 Posts
May 10 2012 19:14 GMT
#2
lmao you should be praised not punished! Punished for being smart. =[
dude bro.
The_LiNk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada863 Posts
May 10 2012 19:15 GMT
#3
Lol my friend did the same thing for a first year for a language course. He was successful though. Good thing my school has a waitlist. Don't need to deal with this crap.
SnipedSoul
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada2158 Posts
May 10 2012 19:15 GMT
#4
Lol that sucks. You can still register offline I hope?
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24743 Posts
May 10 2012 19:19 GMT
#5
The obvious answer is "I wasn't aware of a policy that I couldn't do this? Where is the policy so I can read it?"

"Of course I won't do it again now that you told me but I don't think any punishment is appropriate" (assuming there really was no policy)
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
May 10 2012 19:20 GMT
#6
On May 11 2012 04:19 micronesia wrote:
The obvious answer is "I wasn't aware of a policy that I couldn't do this? Where is the policy so I can read it?"

"Of course I won't do it again now that you told me but I don't think any punishment is appropriate" (assuming there really was no policy)


I'm allowed to email in my request to the registrar and get added. No reason to start a big fight for a small punishment.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24743 Posts
May 10 2012 19:21 GMT
#7
On May 11 2012 04:20 cz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2012 04:19 micronesia wrote:
The obvious answer is "I wasn't aware of a policy that I couldn't do this? Where is the policy so I can read it?"

"Of course I won't do it again now that you told me but I don't think any punishment is appropriate" (assuming there really was no policy)


I'm allowed to email in my request to the registrar and get added. No reason to start a big fight for a small punishment.

Yea at this point there's nothing worth doing about it. However, that's how I feel it should have went down at your original meeting (ofc nothing you can do about that now)
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-10 19:25:17
May 10 2012 19:23 GMT
#8
On May 11 2012 04:21 micronesia wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2012 04:20 cz wrote:
On May 11 2012 04:19 micronesia wrote:
The obvious answer is "I wasn't aware of a policy that I couldn't do this? Where is the policy so I can read it?"

"Of course I won't do it again now that you told me but I don't think any punishment is appropriate" (assuming there really was no policy)


I'm allowed to email in my request to the registrar and get added. No reason to start a big fight for a small punishment.

Yea at this point there's nothing worth doing about it. However, that's how I feel it should have went down at your original meeting (ofc nothing you can do about that now)


I don't know how much power I have. They might just say "there's no policy but you are getting punished anyway." I can make a lot of enemies, be on some watch-list, or take a small punishment. Kind of like a captain's mast vs going for the full court marshal. I mean they might just end up expelling me (I'm not in a degree program), saying they aren't interested in having me take courses here.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-10 19:31:21
May 10 2012 19:29 GMT
#9
Hahaha wow. TBH I'm not that surprised tho. At least my university had a lot of problem with traffic (zz pay more for bandwidth and less for swimming pools, jerks), it makes it worse if it's not even human beings.

If your university's site designers were smart tho, they would let you put yourself on a waiting list so that you would have a seat reserved if someone dropped out. My school didn't do it, but I know a friend whose school let her put herself on waiting lists for courses if they were full. Saves you the stress of checking back all the time.
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cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
May 10 2012 19:33 GMT
#10
On May 11 2012 04:29 Chef wrote:
Hahaha wow. TBH I'm not that surprised tho. At least my university had a lot of problem with traffic (zz pay more for bandwidth and less for swimming pools, jerks), it makes it worse if it's not even human beings.

If your university's site designers were smart tho, they would let you put yourself on a waiting list so that you would have a seat reserved if someone dropped out. My school didn't do it, but I know a friend whose school let her put herself on waiting lists for courses if they were full. Saves you the stress of checking back all the time.


I was shocked they caught me. The website looks like it was designed in 1998 or something. They told me though that this has happened before though, usually with engineering students.
s.a.y
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Croatia3840 Posts
May 10 2012 19:57 GMT
#11
That is very cool actually.
I am not good with quotes
ModernAgeShaman
Profile Joined January 2008
Norway484 Posts
May 10 2012 21:14 GMT
#12
well played dude, this brought a smile to my face
felisconcolori
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States6168 Posts
May 10 2012 22:26 GMT
#13
Hmm. You should probably have done a little more in-depth work on the script. Check for success, something like that. And space it out.

Also, when they called you in, have on a wrist brace and band-aids on your fingers. Then moaned in pain every time you moved your wrist, and screamed loudly "why don't you have a bloody wait list?!?! I sat and I clicked and I sat and I clicked..."

Okay, that second part is unlikely to have done anything, but seriously. Any half-competent registrar's office that even offers electronic registration should be at the point where a wait list is an option. And they have to come and slap you down for using technology? That's like a credit of computer science right there.
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Jinsho
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom3101 Posts
May 10 2012 22:39 GMT
#14
What is this nonsense about telling him to pick a fight with them?

It's obvious that his script generated a huge load on the database and that the IT guys are very much in their right to tell him to fuck off. You don't need the policy to be shown to you to realize that it's justified.

Ktk
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Korea (South)753 Posts
May 10 2012 23:50 GMT
#15
3000 times in 10 hours isn't that much stress for a college db, is it -_-?

Shoulda kept it at every 5 minutes.
iSometric
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
2221 Posts
May 10 2012 23:52 GMT
#16
Good try, but they probably should expect something like this especially with so many people registering and knowing how to do shit like this to abuse the system.
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cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
May 11 2012 00:07 GMT
#17
On May 11 2012 08:50 Ktk wrote:
3000 times in 10 hours isn't that much stress for a college db, is it -_-?

Shoulda kept it at every 5 minutes.


It was once every 17 seconds for a database that services 15k students, and it was run at a near-zero traffic time. It probably mimicked like 5 units during peak hours, so did basically nothing.
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