I’m hoping that all the users of sharenotes.com read this bulletin because although most of you are not involved in defrauding the site, unfortunately it will eventually effect us all
Its recently come to the attention of the site’s administrators that some people have been fraudulently acquiring points. The specific manner that this is occurring is not the point of this post but rather, the fact that it is happening at all.
This site was initially set up to be a benefit to every student who participates, both in the sense that it allows us (myself included) a means to bolster our own study materials as well as a forum share our own. The benefits of having access to our contemporaries lecture notes has been covered ad nauseum on this blog. Suffice it to say from the feedback we receive daily, this site is an important utility to a great many students out there.
As a means of saying thanks for your participation sharenotes.com has added incentives with it’s points structure, which includes the Ipod giveaways that many of you have enjoyed. Sadly these kinds of special perks may have to go away shortly if the fraud is not mitigated.
The bad news doesn’t stop there the negative effects of fraudulent accounts can and will effect this site to the point where it may no longer exist. If you’re on here and you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you don’t want that to happen any more than I do.
So put plainly, fraud is happening, we know about it and were working on it. Some things might change around here and that is unfortunate. If you don’t want this site to go away and perhaps you have any information regarding the fraud itself, you can contact and give us a heads up. We’ll keep any info we get anonymous. sharenotes.com has been very generous with our giveaways and we would certainly thank anyone who is willing to share info with us.
All it takes is a few rotten apples to ruin it for everyone; those with the fraudulent accounts need to take their scummy behavior elsewhere because those of us who want to benefit from this site certainly don’t want it to go away!
It displeases me to know that a few individuals will ruin it for us all. Perhaps administrative action should be immediately taken on their accounts and the IP Address associated with them. If at all possible, try not to punish us all.
I would suggest making students verify that they are part of a school in order to become members or even to collect the rewards. The same manner in which Facebook regulates who can join university networks could be used in order to eliminate users who do not possess a valid university e-mail account.
Why do people do stuff like this? I agree with the idea to check if a student has a valid university email account.
thanks everyone for your concerns and comments. Sharenotes does not want to go anywhere anymore than the students who benefit from our existence. Hopefully a few “rotten apples” won’t ruin the bunch for the rest of us.