<p>I usually agree with @Stephan Kolassa but on this issue I feel there are distinctions to be made, perhaps tenuously.</p>
<p>As far as assessments are concerned, students outsourcing their work to any internet forum is</p>
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<li><p>a species of dishonesty that may (?should) clash with rules and regulations a student should be respecting -- as a teacher I know that there are frameworks under which my students may ask me for advice on work in progress, but I don't expect them to ask elsewhere</p>
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<li><p>arguably not even in the students' best interests as students who get help on questions of the kind asked here are on the whole not better placed to answer later, more complicated questions, let alone undertake more challenging project or thesis work</p>
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<li><p>not in the best interests of any field or profession, as students getting grades or qualifications they don't deserve don't benefit the wider field (this is more a matter of principle possibly).</p>
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<p>Interview questions are more problematic in various ways.</p>
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<li><p>Advice to interviewees is part of what many of us feel free to do, particularly if we know people well for some reason. I never feel guilt about any possibility of disadvantaging others indirectly, as there is a symmetry whereby those other people should have yet others they can ask, and if not I can do nothing about it.</p>
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<li><p>Interview questions that are distributed in advance are, however, like assessments. Interview questions that are asked at the time and not in advance can't be asked about here, except that sometimes people have an inkling of the kinds of questions that might be asked (e.g. from gossip from previous interviews).</p>
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<p>On the whole, this is a grey area where I don't support an explicit ban or even discouragement. I would want rather to emphasise people's freedom to ignore questions they don't want to answer, as always.</p>
