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cz
United States3249 Posts
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.   | ||
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heliusx
United States2306 Posts
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The_LiNk
Canada863 Posts
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SnipedSoul
Canada2158 Posts
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micronesia
United States24709 Posts
"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) | ||
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cz
United States3249 Posts
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. | ||
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micronesia
United States24709 Posts
On May 11 2012 04:20 cz wrote: 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) | ||
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cz
United States3249 Posts
On May 11 2012 04:21 micronesia wrote: 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. | ||
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Chef
10810 Posts
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
United States3249 Posts
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. | ||
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s.a.y
Croatia3840 Posts
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ModernAgeShaman
Norway484 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
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
United Kingdom3101 Posts
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. | ||
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Ktk
Korea (South)753 Posts
Shoulda kept it at every 5 minutes.  | ||
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iSometric
2221 Posts
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cz
United States3249 Posts
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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