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I'm a uw cs student, it is made pretty clear that you're not supposed to trade spots or otherwise automate any part of the registration. Students typically know
by uwthrowaway 2y ago
I'm a uw cs student, it is made pretty clear that you're not supposed to trade spots or otherwise automate any part of the registration. Students typically know not to talk about this stuff.
While well-intentioned, if this was commonly used it would mess registration up even more by making the "constrained" classes valuable and would be filled up quickly by people who wouldn't take them.
- buildbot 2y agoI was an EE student and worked for UW CSE back in the day, someone tried to do this back then as well and got very in trouble. There may have been some browser automation scripts about… I wouldn’t know.
- loeg 2y agoI benefited from a UW CSE spot trade in like 2010 and didn't get in trouble for it at the time.
- uwthrowaway 2y agoYeah, a small amount of "organic" mischief isn't bad IMO, but it's problematic on a larger scale.
- buildbot 2y agoYeah I agree, not ideal given how limited capacity is in some classes.
- hirvi74 2y agoHow were said student(s) even caught? I am assuming someone spoke too loudly or shared too much, but I'd be lying if I said I was not hoping for some kind of technical solution.
- buildbot 2y agoNot sure, but UW IT isn’t incapable of noticing repeated requests from the same IP or something, I assume most students are not setting up systems that go over residential proxies.
- thorncorona 2y agoYou typically need to be signed in in order to get all the course info.
- buildbot 2y agoUW does have that info publicly available: https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/WIN2025/ https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/WIN2025/ You do have to be signed typically to actually make changes of course, I imagine this tool would have to have your netid login… (yikes)
- lupire 2y agoCan you explain when this horrific behavior (seat trading) is explicitly supported by UW, when they could simply NOT accept requests for trading seats? I sign up for a class. I am on the roster. How is it possible for me to put your name on the class roster, for credit, transcript, and diploma, without the university going out of their way to help? These aren't anonymous concert tickets or XBoxes. They are personally identifiable registrations.
- badgersnake 2y agoIt seems odd that they would want the author to provided them with a system to automate it then.