[AareyBaba]

As Electrical engineering TAs in the late 80's, we knew who was copying class homework assignments from their classmates based on transcription errors in the handwritten work that was turned in. Since the class professor couldn't care less about the cheating, we would consistently score the source assignments a few points less than the ones that had copied the assignment. We kept this up for the entire semester.

[xen0]

You graded the original worse than the copies? So the copiers were rewarded?

[bruce343434]

they did lend their original out to be copied... thus facilitating dishonesty.

[xen0]

Sure; dock me a mark or two and tell me why. But why not just give a straight zero to the others that didn't actually do the work?

[seunosewa]

It's unjust, though, to punish those who facilitated an offence more than those who committed it.

[etherealG]

Sharing your work to others to copy isn’t facilitating, it’s committing. Cheating is cheating.

[seunosewa]

You must have thought it would discourage hardworking students from allowing other students to copy them. Did it work?