<p>**Every year, we have to repeat the warnings regarding blatant and continuous violations of the rules created by The College Board. Please read what happened to students in 2004! </p>
<p>We have to ask all of you to respect the instructions without exception. Do not expect College Confidential to keep on deleting posts that could endanger YOUR scores. It is up to you. </p>
<p>However, please be aware that we will not tolerate blatant disregard of the instructions, and that repeated offenses will result in permanent banning!**</p>
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By Tri<em>N (Tri</em>N) on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 11:27 pm: Edit </p>
<p>Hello guys, </p>
<p>As you have known, I've been a frequent poster on this message board for a long time. Two days ago, I'd finished taken the AP Calc exam and felt that the exam was challenging. On the exam itself, there were few questions that I thought were questionable. Hurried to learn others' perspectives on the exam, I found a thread called the Official Calc BC thread and posted several questions regarding the exam before the 48 hours deadline. ETS has a strict enforcement on this agreement and I'd violated the agreement by sharing some undisclosed information that could encourage cheating. The moderator warned me of this startling fact but I ignored his heeding, believing that ETS can't trace the nick back to me. Well, I've been exposed and will possibly face the consequences. According to the rules, ETS will cancel all of my AP scores and forbid me from taking any more AP exam. </p>
<p>I'm not here to preach to you guys about the consequences of your actions because all of you are smart individuals who consistently make decisions in your lives. I understand that the emotion can be overwhelming after an AP exam and your action can be a spurt in the moment. As you read my post, I hope you will refrain from disclosing any AP material and abide by the 48 hours agreement. As a victim, I'll likely face the consequences but you don't have to face this fate. While I think that the 48 hours rule is unnecessary, I think we should be courteous and control ourselves for two days. My action may aid others in cheating or it may not but countless students, including the handicaps, will waste at least 30 mins-1 hours by exchanging test booklets because of a few keystrokes. The rule and the consequences are certainly important but let's remember our purpose. As we strive day after in the classroom, our goal is to ace the exam and receive the college credit. We pay a hefty sum to take this exam and it would be a shame to throw away our effort and good money because we can't control ourselves. I hope that my sacrifice will be fruitful for future references. Good day.
<p>Out of curiosity, why can't I find any posts by this user? Maybe I'm using the search function wrong, but when I type in his name into the Search By Username option, I get that " 1. Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. "</p>
<p>And doesn't this post kind of go against what Amistad posted. This makes it sound as though we have a choice...</p>
<p>If it's really that much of a problem, why don't you just temporarily lock the forum? That's what Art of Problem Solving does during AMC testing.</p>
<p>Locking the forum will punish innocent people who have not done anything. I say to instantly ban violators on spot (yea, it is a little harsh, but it beats getting caught by College Board)</p>
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<p>The date of the original post should have provided the clue: Tri<em>N (Tri</em>N) on Friday, May 07, 2004. Yes, there was a College Confidential before we unveiled the present forum. </p>
<p>Here's a link to the older forum and the post by Tri_N. </p>
<p>Link doesn't work for me. I get a download for a html page along with a boarder. In the end I get a page with the old CC menu on the left and no post. Maybe it's b.c. I'm running in FireFox...?</p>
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<li>I feel so old bc ppl dont know about the old version of the site</li>
<li>I remember back in 10th grade when I went on the CB website only hours after the test (I think it was USH) and found the PDF containing all of the FRQ/DBQs online for every test that had happened up until that day (including USH and Euro). I still wonder why we are restricted to a 48 hour rule if they do not even bother waiting to put up the PDFs until that amount of time. I think they have stopped that practice since then but I remember laughing very hard at the hyprocrites that are CB. Nonetheless, don't be stupid and post questions, and good luck on your exams :)</li>
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<p>I don't know about you guys, but I love how a bunch of the posts after Tri_N's warning questioned his validity. I won't start the argument up again, especially since the moderators specifically said the CB rules will be enforced, but still, read the rebellious comments from 2004, they just might make you smile.</p>
<p>The story of 2004 is very simple. One poster decided to play games and ignore the rules. College Confidential warned him repeatedly and spent considerable time editing problematic posts. In the end, The College Board was able to identify him with the outcome Tri_N posted himself.</p>
<p>Why risk your college career? </p>
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By Tri<em>N (Tri</em>N) on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 06:36 pm: Edit </p>
<p>Edited for protection of user. See warnings on TOP of threads' selection page.
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By Tri<em>N (Tri</em>N) on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 06:49 pm: Edit </p>
<p>As for the college board, there're at least hundreds of students with my name. There's no way will the collgeboard trace this back to me. </p>
<p>*Tri N, if I understand you correctly, you decide to ignore CC requests and TCB warnings because you feel that TCB could not match your information with their files? That is NOT the point: you HAVE to abide by the rules endorsed by CC. As a side note, you should also consider that your posts might provide clues to anyone willing to spend the time to match records. For instance, how many of the students with identical names to yours were Quest scholars? Think about it!. Trinity *
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By Tri<em>N (Tri</em>N) on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 09:09 pm: Edit </p>
<p>BTW, if the mods think that this is revealing too much, feel free to edit my posts.
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Tri N, I am not sure if you paid close attention to the warnings on this site and to the policies of TCB printed on the tests. By now, most everyone seems to understand the meaning of TCB's message. It is YOUR responsibility to follow the rules. This is not a game where you push the limits -no pun intented- as far you can and hope to see moderators edit your posts and bail you out. You are posting at your own risk. Our job is to make sure everyone has seen the rules posted. I can only advise you to use extreme caution in your future posts and ask yourself if it is worth to discuss ANYTHING in the next two days. Moderator Trinity **
<p>IP address gives them an internet service provider who might be all to willing to comply. Also, if you posted information about yourself (ie. stats, locations, past experiences), a motivated person could probably figure out who you are...</p>
<p>And speaking of being motivated, I'm off to study for AP Stat. Thinking to self: Damn, more information CB can use to track me down!</p>