Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam
by IgorPartola on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:23AM
(#30229738)
Another way: corrupt the formatting such that the file doesn’t show anything. Think the equivalent of adding a CSS property like body {margin-left: -10000px}. File would be perfectly valid but display as blank.
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Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam
by mlyle on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:40AM
(#30229816)
That's not too useful when plenty of students just send in a plain blank document. Corrupting it in one way that looks like a -different- way of slacking isn't so useful.
Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam
by ViViDboarder on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:39AM
(#30229812)
Why not send a blank file then? The point is that you want the editor to error and fail to read so they can’t tell that you didn’t do the work.
Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam
by tempestn on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:44AM
(#30229835)
Because a blank file will have a tiny file size and will look like... a blank file. You want it to look like something went wrong such that the file couldn't be opened, but that it would have content if you could.
Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam
by tsimionescu on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:29AM
(#30230273)
I'd bet that for the average tech illiterate teacher that's used to lazy students, it would be more work to explain how it could possibly NOT be the student's fault if they got an empty(looking) docx.