[ImPostingOnHN]

It's not cheating administrators, it's ambiguous questions with multiple possible answers.

As the judge of this test, I interpret your answer as incorrect. I expected the phrase, "the last word in this line" to be underlined. Test failed, no cheating required.

(Note that had you underlined the phrase, "the last word in this line", I would have still judged it incorrect, claiming that "word" or "line" should be underlined. Again, this requires no cheating.)

[zahlman]

>As the judge of this test, I interpret your answer as incorrect.

This makes you a cheating administrator in this hypothetical,

>I expected the phrase, "the last word in this line" to be underlined.

... because this expectation is not valid.

Quotation marks are not merely needed to make the question "unambiguous"; they are needed to make your interpretation possible.

[ImPostingOnHN]

> This makes you a cheating administrator in this hypothetical

Actually, it doesn't.

> this expectation is not valid.

Actually, it is.

> Quotation marks are not merely needed to make the question "unambiguous"; they are needed to make your interpretation possible.

Actually, they are optional for that purpose, not required. Without them, the meaning is indeed ambiguous, with my interpretation indeed being valid.

The fact that we came up with 2 different, equally valid interpretations, just goes to show that the question is ambiguous.

Some other equally valid interpretations are explained by another poster here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41912790

[Izkata]

If it was this, there would be quotes around those 6 words, just like in your comment.

The quotes are needed to change this sentence from its clear meaning to these other ones.

[ImPostingOnHN]

> If it was this, there would be quotes around those 6 words, just like in your comment.

If there were quotes around those 6 words, it would make the question unambiguous, sure. But without the quotes, my interpretation and judgement is still valid.

> The quotes are needed to change this sentence from its clear meaning to these other ones.

Actually, they are optional for that purpose, not required. Without them, the meaning is ambiguous. Just as you claim your interpretation is the "clear meaning", others have exactly as valid a claim to their interpretation being the "clear meaning".