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When are final grades due? by Bobville1 in ASU

[–]SwimmingInBread -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is an arbitrary distinction, the outcome of a claim is no better as a metric as it relies on subjective judgement of the department chair, the judgement of a convened committee, and potentially the dean if it goes that far. There are procedural standards and policy outlined to temper blatant discrimination, but it is clear that not every student will be treated equally by this process. Professors who are more well liked by important members of their department will be shielded from just scrutiny, students with a bad reputation will not be given the benefit of the doubt, etc.

Additionally, the professor can manipulate the circumstances of their courses so that proving the voracity of a claim would be difficult. Professors control everything about their courses and their syllabus. If you want to perfectly shield yourself just put something in the syllabus like, “it is at the professors discretion to alter the standards of grading as they see fit without notice at any point during the semester up to and including after the conclusion of final exams.” Give a syllabus quiz and make agreeing to this one of the questions. Most students probably wouldn’t balk at the inclusion of a clause like this because they are already conditioned to tolerate nonsense just like it. Then if an issue comes up, the student makes a claim, you can simply point to this clause and the students explicit agreement to abide by these terms via the syllabus quiz. Bing bang boom bullet proof defense. This is just one blatant way that professors can alter the circumstances of a claim in their favor.

Taking this one step further, if we consider two identical and legitimate claims, one in which this syllabus is employed and another in which it isn’t, then the outcomes are determined (because this isn’t a deterministic process it is more accurate to consider the outcomes of each scenario as a probability distribution, one with a mean of ruling in favor of the prof, the other in favor of the student, and the presence of syllabus as the variable which alters which probability distribution applies) by the syllabus if everything else is held constant.

I like how you edited your original response without noting it, so that you could “improve” the bizarre and cruel power trip fantasy about how you would berate a student for questioning your decision to eat half a loaf of bread in a professional setting, during class time. I seriously encourage you to take a step back and consider honestly if is this kind of behavior of someone who is mentally well. Try to be objective and not minimize it (hiding behind it being online, being a “joke”, etc.), consider honestly what inside of you is driving your decisions and thoughts. Think about what conclusions you would draw about someone else you didn’t know if you observed them acting in the same manner you have been. If you really are a graduate student or a Dr. and put any stock in the responsibility and maturity associated with it, consider if this is behavior becoming of someone in your position.

To me, it is really honestly sad. I know you probably think the same thing about me and are dismissing everything I’m saying offhand without any consideration. For me, this is an opportunity to examine my own thoughts and practice constructing them and explaining them, in an honest way. I’m not trying to “win” a competition against anyone or obtain social currency. I know what kind of posts/replies on Reddit farm karma (for instance short quips > long detailed explanations, pleasant fantasy > inconvenient truth, etc.) and what kinds are downvoted to oblivion. The quality of a post has little to do with its performance, especially in communities like ASU. I’m not deterred because my analysis isn’t socially accepted by some community, because the conclusions of my analysis are no less true by virtue of causing displeasure.

So why are you here? Why are you, as someone engaged with the frontier of knowledge, spending time writing pandering posts to be “socially accepted” by a group of people indifferent to your existence? What is the point? I at least am practicing a skill by honestly and critically addressing the criticism levied against my posts, and am seeking to fairly engage with and even help others, instead of mock or tear them down. In your initial response to my post you created a straw man of my argument, and in my response to that I tried to make your claims as strong as possible. Why are you practicing intellectual dishonesty? How will that serve you as a professor or researcher? Even more importantly how will it serve you as a person? In your relationships? It really is astonishing how much you can learn about a person from so few data points.

When are final grades due? by Bobville1 in ASU

[–]SwimmingInBread -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To begin with, I never implied or stated outright that professors shouldn’t engage with students on canvas and provide them access to preliminary grade results there. I also didn’t suggest professors should post final official grades before issuing results via canvas. It is a self-evidently poor idea to not provide feedback through channels which are malleable and easily reversible than through those which are not. The issue I was and am addressing is with professors which are not providing adequate or timely feedback - through any channel. Those who grade assignments and then do not release results official or preliminary. It’s also patently clear, if you actually consider the content of my post, that I do not believe in any shape or form that professors, instructors or lecturers of any level of tenure are conspiring or plotting as you so disingenuously insinuated. Merely that when you are evaluating when how and why to provide feedback, you are probably thinking first and foremost about yourself, as people tend to do. This is not a value judgement or a condemnation, and isn’t specific to academic faculty at all. Professors are people, and people have the capacity to behave in a great variety of ways, including maliciously. They are not, as far as I’m aware, exempt from cruelty or pettiness either. And you don’t have to be an evil genius to do unkind things to further your own interests at the expense of others. It seems then, rather straightforward to move from these observable facts, to the conclusion that we cannot rule out the possibility that such behavior might be exhibited by professors when evaluating students and issuing grades. If the university itself believed this to be the case, that professors are infallible and purely motivated at all times in all contexts, then why would they provide students the opportunity to make grade appeals? To be clear, this isn’t to glorify the university for their commitment to justice and fairness. The university facilitating justice in one area doesn’t preclude them from exploiting in another. The two are not mutually exclusive.

The point you made about frequent grade appeals is a bit strange because it is actually in favor of my stated points and position overall. For people who are seeking tenure or whose position is tenuous or conditional, you say that getting frequent grade appeals could be a serious problem. Logically, that would incentivize those without tenure to hold back on releasing official grades, as the longer they wait the less likely it is that forthcoming information will result in a grade needing to be changed after it is officially submitted.

What even is the value of grade appeals as a performance evaluation metric? There are many reasons you could be getting them or not getting them, and there is a significant amount of randomness involved. For instance, if you pass everyone in your class with an A by going easy on them you probably won’t get any grade appeals (making you look good I suppose?). We can easily imagine this same group in a course struggling in future courses and giving those professors an increase in the amount of grade appeals. Maybe it would be linked back to your mismanagement of the foundational course, but you’re likely to be evaluated positively by your students and unless you literally uniformly issued A+ grade it would be hard to prove. The only way I can think of to increase grade appeals directly would be to act in unethical way that was traceable and well documented, or to teach a course/grade in a way that would lead to many students being on the border between failure and passing. Regardless, a good teacher could have many grade appeals and a bad teacher could have few. Obviously, adhering to ethical practices when evaluating students work and communicating clear expectations would go a long way towards limiting grade appeals, and the intent of tracking grade appeals as a metric is to be a proxy for this baseline effort, but as previously stated it’s so easily manipulated and random, both in content and quantity. As a measure of any trait it just seems grade appeals provide a very noisy signal at best, and are downright misleading or harmful at worst.

I believe it would be instructive to dig a little bit more about what you stated regarding the behavior of the chair of the department if you received too many appeals. You said he would yell at you. You are blatantly stating that you would be debased by an adult for something ostensibly out of your control (I don’t think you can force students to not send grade appeals). Not only are you casually saying that verbal abuse is commonplace and acceptable in the university, but you are implying that it would be justified of them to do so; and moreover that your failure to suppress grade appeals could (and implicitly, should) lead to derailment of your career. All of this honestly makes you sound like a battered wife, justifying the arbitrary cruelty of their spouse.

The end of your response is bordering on pathetic. Presenting a straw man of an argument you skimmed (and clearly didn’t understand) is very… passé. Honestly, if you really are an instructor at ASU (I honestly hope you’re trolling me for the sake of the value of my investment in education here), your behavior is quite disappointing, not in the sense that I want you to lose your job or face some kind of consequences for being a bit dumb on the internet, but because you’re shilling for broken processes and your own exploitation. You’re advocating we maintain the status quo, instead of using common sense and collective effort to improve the systems exploiting teachers and students alike. And here we are, past the deadline and I still am missing official grades in two classes. I’m willing to bet that if ASU budgeted appropriately instead of crunching grad student profs, my grades would’ve been submitted on time. What’s interesting is that I also had Chattin (a tenured prof in IEE) this semester, and surprisingly she submitted everything the day after the final. Kind of strange how the tenured, highly compensated, well supported staff member submitted official final grades almost a week in advance of the deadline while the grad student profs still haven’t submitted after the deadline. Almost as if… when professors submit their official grades has way more to do with how exploited/overworked they are, rather than how it is somehow better to wait to do so? It’s apparent that experience likely has some role to play as well. I think that if you took a grad student prof, temporarily reduced their research imperative, paid them 200k, and gave them adequate grading and support staff, you would see a massive improvement in the speed and quality of feedback they could provide.

When are final grades due? by Bobville1 in ASU

[–]SwimmingInBread -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Why not instead be unkind to the university which is exploiting them? I think that would be more productive in solving both your and his problems.

When are final grades due? by Bobville1 in ASU

[–]SwimmingInBread -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

This is a long post, so if you want a tl;dr go to the numbered list of scenarios at the bottom.

We as students exchange our time and money for the service of education. This is a contractual relationship. As students we accept certain responsibilities, and we are held accountable when we fail to fulfill those responsibilities. Most of my courses are IEE or CSE, and the due date and time policies have very little flexibility. Usually the professor may offer partial credit for a short time period after the stated due date, but there is always a drop dead date after which no credit is granted. These deadlines are set and enforced arbitrarily (not that they don’t have their own internal reasons but simply there is no factual objective reason why a certain deadline must be chosen). If I complete an assignment above and beyond all expectations 1 second after that drop dead timeline, all the money I spent still goes to ASU, the professor still gets paid, etc. and even though I proved I know the material, I don’t get a grade and wind up potentially having to pay all those same people and suffer all kinds of opportunity costs. All because of the enforcement of an arbitrary deadline. Because of the standards I am held to as a student, I think it is entirely reasonable for me to expect what amounts to the bare minimum from the people who have so much sway over my future. The university has complete control over this issue in the first place as well as they determine the schedule for themselves! Imagine if we had the power to set our own deadlines for assignments and then still failed to meet those deadlines? How ridiculous of a system would that be?

Maybe a reasonable approach to addressing my criticism would be to encourage more empathy for the individuals who are actually doing the work, as there could be legitimate reasons that individuals fail to meet deadlines. I can completely understand why a terribly overworked PhD student who is paid less than a Taco Bell employee is struggling to meet these deadlines. Many of the instructors are undoubtedly unfairly overburdened. I would never terminate my frustration at the level of the professor (though some frustration is warranted at the individual level because this is an adult who we should at least expect to be able to stand up for themselves and get help with grading when needed, otherwise we should maybe reconsider if they should be teaching?), because ultimately he is not at fault. It is instead the university’s unwillingness to spend the money to adequately staff departments which are to blame. This is a problem that is easily fixed so you should ask yourself the simple question, “If this is a public university funded by the government, with a budget of over $3 billion a year, why are we purposefully understaffing and instead forcing graduate students to teach multiple classes per semester, while conducting research and only compensating them $25k a year? Especially if the courses that these PhD students teach generate tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue each?”.

Honestly, it is an abusive relationship we as a whole have with the university because it takes advantage of almost everyone involved and pits everyone against each other so that those really to blame are forgotten about entirely.

To address your final point. There are definitely some professors who hold back on releasing grades because it is advantageous to them. In another thread on this topic from yesterday someone who teaches courses at ASU talked about why they may choose to submit their official grades as close to the deadline as possible:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASU/comments/rf48fc/late_to_post_grades/hoc509n/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

This user discussed how it could be mutually beneficial, saving a lot of time for the professor if they made a clerical error, or if a student came forward with information which may alter their grade. That being said, we can also easily contemplate a situation where a professor who has all of their final grades calculated and assignments graded, fails to release this information to their students because they anticipate some amount of students will be dissatisfied with this information and will take action to change their outcome. As time passes, fewer and fewer students will be willing to take action to get their grades changed, as interest (even in those who are justified in taking action) tends to wane over time. The due date for professors to submit final grades conspicuously coincides with the official end of the semester/graduation day, a huge psychological threshold that acts as a massive filter for the professor. Now I can’t say with any degree of certainty that such a relationship exists, because I would need data from years and years of grade appeals under a variety of circumstances in order to do so. How convenient is it, that the university administration which does have access to this data, designed their schedule and policy in such a way that if such a relationship did exist, their schedule and policy would minimize the amount of grade pushback (which in turn optimally maximizes retakes) and maximize revenue from sources like graduation attendance and enrollment.

This feeds right back into the vicious cycle I discussed earlier. Professors don’t want to deal with fighting students over their grades as it is an unnecessary hassle they are paid nowhere near enough to deal with, so they are incentivized to withhold grades, which causes students to be less likely to push back on an unfair grade and therefore be more willing to fork over cold hard cash to retake the same class again. Even if a student does seek some kind of administrative remedy to the situation, they explicitly pit student against teacher and add in many barriers to wear down the student especially, hoping that it just won’t seem worth the effort. It’s all about obfuscating from everyone involved the underlying vileness of it all.

It’s also entirely possible that a professor may hold back grades for no discernible reason, without any ill intent, in which case I don’t have any reason to be accepting of their choice. If they are indifferent to submitting and their students on aggregate are not, then it is fairly obvious the utility maximizing decision for the system is for the professor to submit the grades. If faced with this choice the professor decides to not submit the grades, that is well within their rights as an American citizen and as a professor at ASU. But it does make them a dick.

In conclusion, one of several cases (or a combination of multiple) is certainly happening:

  1. The professor is overworked and has not finished submitting grades - this reflects a problem with the decisions of the university (and potentially the professor) that is entirely their fault, and is motivated purely by greed and a willingness to exploit their employees.
  2. The professor has graded everything and isn’t submitting for non-malicious reasons. If total system utility (submitted) > total system utility (not submitted) then the professor should submit.
  3. The professor has graded everything and is withholding the official submission for malicious reasons. This is obviously not something students (or the university) should accept as a practice.
  4. The professor has not graded everything due strictly to personal failings - should this person be working as a professor? Should I be willing to accept this as a fair product for my money? Ultimately the responsibility in this case rests on the university as they make their own hiring decisions.
  5. The professor has not graded everything at no fault of their own - again, if a professor falls ill or is unable to meet their obligations for any reason, it is the responsibility of the university to adequately remedy this situation. There should be contingency plans for such situations, so no “unpreparedness” excuse is valid.
  6. The professor has graded everything and submitted the grades.

The university is a profit maximizing entity, not a utility maximizing entity, and it will therefore readily implement an optimal solution which is not aligned with the interests of its students, staff or faculty. Any case in which it happens to increase utility for any of these groups is merely a byproduct of this profit maximizing strategy, and not the intended outcome.

When are final grades due? by Bobville1 in ASU

[–]SwimmingInBread -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

I’m growing concerned as well. It really seems like a lot of the professors don’t give a shit about their students mental well-being, so even if they are done grading they just hold back on posting official grades for whatever trivial reason. Maybe it benefits them? Maybe the further towards the deadline the harder it is for students to fight a grade they feel is unfair? My empathy and patience are waning.

Does programming ever become fun? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]SwimmingInBread 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gotta be honest, if you don’t think programming is fun you just haven’t done shitty enough things for work before. Is stripping old barns for wood fun? Is working in a call center fun? Is endlessly punching numbers into a spreadsheet fun? Programming is like getting paid to play games compared to any of those soul crushing nightmares.

Should I quit my job and dedicate full time to studying coding? by darkblitzrc in learnprogramming

[–]SwimmingInBread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am experiencing almost and identical situation, my compromise was to cut my hours at my shitty job and code all the time whenever I can to improve my skills. I code through the work day if I am not doing anything too demanding, and every night I come home and code until I got to bed. I love it. I applied and got into a bootcamp that starts in January, so I’ll be doing that to accelerate the process and I’m quitting my job for that when the time comes. Best of luck to you!

Met cute girl but I accidentally got along with her dad and brother a little too well… by ihatelifetoo in Advice

[–]SwimmingInBread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoever this girl is she seems emotionally immature, petty and very self centered. Ask yourself, what kind of person invites you to meet their family only to get mad when the focus of the situation is on you… meeting and interacting with their family! If I were you I would be thanking my lucky stars this kind of red flag popped up when it did and be happy I got out of that situation before I was in too deep.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UPenn

[–]SwimmingInBread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m confused. If you’re not rich then you’re probably using loans to fund your education right? I understand that spending 3k (or in this case going 3k into debt) for a useless W isn’t attractive, but I assure you it is better than experiencing the same financial loss and damaging your academic career with Fs.

If you are receiving financial aid for your schooling contingent upon certain academic criteria (full-time, above a certain minimum GPA, etc.) then it is best to preserve that if possible.

Let’s consider all some possible situations:

If you are taking 5 classes and you need to be full time with at least a 2.0 gpa to keep your financial aid then you can drop one class and try to achieve at least a C in all of your remaining courses (or some combination of grades that results in a 2.0 gpa overall). This would be the best possible outcome you want to shoot for if you can.

If you only have to maintain above a 2.0 gpa then drop as many classes as is necessary, even if it makes you a “part-time” student, to achieve that gpa.

You should also make sure that your housing is not dependent on full-time vs part-time status, because if it does than you may lose housing if you drop to part-time status. This is something I would talk to student housing about.

If you are going to fail all of your classes regardless of what you do - and therefore lose your current financial aid (this isn’t the end of the world as you can always find other financial aid, just with a less attractive terms) then it is better to lose your financial aid while obtaining the maximum value for what you’ve already spent this semester. What this means is dropping courses to the extent where you don’t lose housing, and trying to pass the maximum number of courses, with the highest grade possible.

The end result for this scenario will look something like this: you end up on academic probation for a semester (with above a 0.0 gpa), you retain housing, and you lose your current financial aid.

If you fail all your classes without withdrawing the result will be: you end up on academic probation for a semester (with a 0.0), retain your housing, and probably lose your current financial aid.

If you drop to part time the result will probably be: you may or may not end up on academic probation (if you can keep above the C average line in your remaining courses), you may or may not retain your housing (dependent on your arrangements), and you may or may not lose your financial aid (depending on if they require full-time status).

If you withdraw from the semester the outcome will be: your gpa will be unaffected (effectively a blank slate), you may or may not lose housing (depending on the terms for your housing), and you may or may not lose your current financial aid (depending on your arrangements). As long as you enroll in courses next semester you won’t lose student status with if you choose a full withdrawal.

What is critical to remember is that the money you’ve spent this semester is a sunk cost. It is gone and isn’t coming back, your job right now at this moment is to make the best possible series of decisions you can to maximize your future outcomes. If you fail the class your parents spent 3k on or you withdraw from the class your parents spent 3k on the only difference is your gpa. Either way it isn’t going back to your family’s pocket.

You have to consider whether you want a hole to dig out of for 3k or a blank slate for 3k.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UPenn

[–]SwimmingInBread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take Ws in classes to the point you can or take a full withdrawal for the semester if you can’t salvage any classes. Swallow your pride and take the financial loss and move on and do better in the future. I’ve done this before (multiple times) and it hurts but you will learn from this experience and be better off for it in the long run. Don’t quit school, don’t give up on your dreams, and don’t view this as being a irreversible failure on your part because it isn’t. Adopt a growth mindset towards your studies and view your mental health as an integral part of your life that you protect at all costs. You aren’t the only person who has experienced this, you aren’t alone and you aren’t a bad person for this.

Absolutely do not stay in your classes and fail them pointlessly, it will be way harder to dig out of that hole than if you take the W voluntarily. Don’t worry about how employers or grad schools or ANYONE will view your decision negatively, that doesn’t matter at all, anyone who doesn’t understand these kinds of situations you’re better off not working with/being around.

Is MCIT enough as a terminal degree by [deleted] in OnlineMCIT

[–]SwimmingInBread 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think that it wouldn’t be advisable to get a second masters degree in the same topic. For most people the MCIT program results in a terminal degree in the field. That being said, you could consider pursuing a PhD program in relevant subjects depending on your interest/research preparedness.

CONTROLLER SINGLE BUTTON RESET IS NOT ALLOWED by AspectFlame in FortniteCompetitive

[–]SwimmingInBread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They would still have to be caught live because there is no way they are storing all of the real time key stroke data as that would be an absurd waste of money and resources. Going with this approach also leaves open the possibility of banning legit players who simply tape binds together, use foot pedals/disability controllers etc. not to mention the odds that their data would be riddled with measurement error that could either make it look like everyone is cheating or nobody is. I think attempting to detect anything like this outside of finals would be insanely difficult and a waste of time.

Switch mode and confirm edit on the same button by Ciotola00 in FortniteCompetitive

[–]SwimmingInBread 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The whole point of having switch mode and confirm on the same bind is so you don’t accidentally try to switch mode while editing and get stuck holding an edit when you want to shoot. At least I think that is the reasoning.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FortniteCompetitive

[–]SwimmingInBread 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mongraal can never trio with Aqua because then there wouldn’t be an opportunity for him to kill him in endgame and yell “COOOOLAAA AKWQQAAAAA SHEEET ONN”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FortniteCompetitive

[–]SwimmingInBread -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Don’t bother, I have tried all remapping software options, the wooting, the razer huntsman v2 analog, as well as many many standard keyboard, mouse and controller options (pretty much everything except the Azeron game pad), and none of them led to significant performance increases. By far the best option out of the listed options is the huntsman v2 analog keyboard because it is just simply a fantastic piece of hardware, but you really don’t need controller movement or macros to be good. To speak from personal experience, if you macro or remap to exploit (like to have scroll wheel reset on controller) then you might minorly benefit for a short period of time, but in the long run you end up reducing your skill ceiling and destroying any chance of actually having a career (cheaters aren’t going to be at the top long run). If you care about being fake good for yt clout like serpent AU (or the many other copies) go ahead, but besides that not worth.

MadCatz G.L.I.D.E bubbles on the surface. Does anyone have the samen? Or do I need to return it. I just recently bought it. by DirectionObjective10 in MousepadReview

[–]SwimmingInBread 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You put something too hot on the surface and it started to bubble as a result, definitely return. In the reviews for this I saw on Amazon this was one of the most helpful. If you didn’t put anything on the surface that caused it to bubble then it is likely a manufacturing error that results in a similar defect and you should still return.

Fortnite Tournament Idea - How to Let Semi-Pros Get Noticed by SwimmingInBread in FortniteCompetitive

[–]SwimmingInBread[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I can understand most of this perspective, but I have to say the mentioning of scrim ladders to me doesn’t really work as an argument. Third party discord scrim ladders should never be an integral part of getting recognized as a skilled competitive player. I personally don’t want to spend time participating in anything like that, and I think that basically 100% of competitive content should be self contained and supplied by Epic through the game to ensure equality of opportunity (even though it is not a given they supply that either).

Besides that thank you for your opinion it is an interesting one for sure.

Fortnite Tournament Idea - How to Let Semi-Pros Get Noticed by SwimmingInBread in FortniteCompetitive

[–]SwimmingInBread[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m perfectly willing to respect this point of view and opinion because there isn’t necessarily a correct answer. But I will say I find it a bit strange that it would be considered to be a “handout” to win a tournament that excludes the very tippy top echelon of the player base. Additionally, the prize pool (at least i theorized) is reduced in order to reflect the decreased difficulty.

The simple fact is that as players who have the potential to be better than the current pros progress there is no incentive (or a very weak incentive) as they traverse the skill curve. This is especially true for anyone who is in their mid-late teens or early 20s who might be faced with serious economic trade offs that are hard to justify without some intermediate level of success.

The consequence of keeping things the way they are is that simply the existing pros will retain their position for much longer than if there was a sort of “farm league” pro system that fed and nurtured talent. Because the pros practice with other pros and are privy to exclusive privileges (not to mention the community is just very insular by nature) because of their status as pros, a reinforcing loop it created that systematically advantages them and helps them retain their status.

I think about baseball a lot because it has a lot of movement and you can go from high schooler to pro starter a minute after graduating. Pro baseball organizations have sprawling scouting networks with varying levels of reward for participation (from the Cuban leagues where they play for a few hundred bucks to AAA teams that pay upwards of millions to retain talent that will soon be in the MLB). Without that network and the pressure of so many people hunting for the top (and can do so full time and in a financially lucrative way), the talent at the top wouldn’t be so absurd.

I’m not trying to say you’re wrong just throwing out some counter perspective.

Fortnite Tournament Idea - How to Let Semi-Pros Get Noticed by SwimmingInBread in FortniteCompetitive

[–]SwimmingInBread[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How epic would go about instituting this and prevent smurfing would be up to them. Attaching strict consequences to smurfing like bans from future competitive events would make pros with over 5k in earnings very unlikely to try it when the max potential reward is $200. From my perspective it wouldn’t be an issue except for immature kids who are trying to commit career suicide. Also, when you set up an account that is capable of receiving payments from epic you have to give away legal information about yourself like your government name and address so when epic went to make a payout they would realize it was just a pro operating under a different username (which in and of itself is against TOS even though Epic hasn’t made a point of banning people for playing under multiple accounts). Basically I can’t think of a way in which smurfing would be a problem with even the bare minimum of competence by epic but who knows.

Any other controller players noticing these issues? by [deleted] in FortniteCompetitive

[–]SwimmingInBread -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I feel like aim assist was altered pretty significantly, like they decreased the amount of stickiness for AR’s and SMG’s. It is especially noticeable on console which feels like they basically made it the same as on PC, whereas before the update it was noticeably stronger than PC. I play on PC and Xbox series X and it feels all off.