I don’t think anyone is defending the girl. She’s a rotten kid, and she should get punished per the policies of her university. There’s no zero-sum here. I think her actions were awful, and I think his were malicious – but he seems to be getting a net gain out of this at the expense of her privacy, which just rubs me the wrong way.

And, if you think posting her full name on the web and attaching it to ‘plagiarist’ isn’t “that horrible,” you must not know how commonly people enter other peoples’ names into google.

Your view is SO unreasonable !

BTW, I don’t see what the author did as that horrible. What SHE did was horrible, diluting everyone’s degree who got it the honest way. She didn’t even pay him. Where’s the outrage for that???

No, of course not. I was felt that, given the hurtful, attack-dog nature of how people get treated on the web, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when the same tactics get turned on someone a little more defenseless. I guess I’m too cynical.

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You are absolutely wonderful.

it wasn’t an attempt at indecency. i’ve been busy with work and i forgot that her real name was on here. it should be gone now. thanks for catching it.

Just ’cause it’s the standard doesn’t make it any less objectionable. And while I have no say in the content of this site, I actually think her real name should be taken out of the post. And yes, I know there’s no way to completely erase it from the entire web, but removing it here would be a decent gesture.