Okay, some of you read my other thread, but I wanted to clean that up and open a new one. I want to create a website around cheating and techniques of cheating. In no way will I be selling or distributing textbook answers or textbook versions. I will, however, be allowing members on the site to exchange answers with eachother. As far as I know, this is cheating but is not illegal, henceforth I won't be shut down nor will I have any lawsuits on my hands. My main problem in making this site is going to be the very prevalent idea of keeping the teachers out. I've thought of things such as a invite only member trace (very good suggestion ;]) and admin verification, student ID's, and other things. My site is going to be basically full of cheating "teasers" linking to a forum, where the master goods will be displayed. The entire site will be based upon a login system, and if you can't login, you can't read past the <!--more--> tag or any of the forums in the message board. This ensures security of the students. Once a member has a verified account they are free to roam the site and, at 500 posts, have master invite privileges. Can anyone think of a flaw in my plan or a way to improve it? Let me know Thanks.
It sounds like a pretty good idea for a site. Honestly though, I think you're worrying too much. Who cares if teachers and school administrators can read it? I guarantee every method of cheating is already on the web somewhere but that doesn't change the fact kids get away with cheating all the time. A teacher or school administrator reading your site would have very little effect if any and few teachers would even care to waste their time reading through a site talking about methods of cheating. They know ways kids cheat they just for the most part can't waste their time in class checking every kid for every method that they could be using to cheat. So yea I think worrying about teachers seeing your site should be the least of your worries. You should just focus on growing your community as efficiently as possible and setting restrictions such as invite only and requiring student ids would only hamper growth.
a problem you have is if your only allowing school/college/uni email addresses for people to register then the schools administrator will eventually make sure any emails from your site are permanently banned/and automatically deleted. Also they may put out something that says if anyone receives an email from your site will be kicked out of classes.
That means I'm going to want to stay away from college emails, I've established that. Does anyone have an idea that can keep the product away from teachers that I'm overlooking?
it is going to be next to impossible to stop teachers registering but at the same time other than requesting the school blocks your site from its own computers there is little it can do against the site. Depending on the exact content there is the risk of copyright breaches if it contains elements copied directly from tests/ text books etc but i assume you are sensible enough not to do that.