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title: Sept 10

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# Sept 10

## Announcements

- Students that ask a lot of questions
  - This typically leads to DMing TAs
  - Please advise students to not DM
    - Reasoning: unfair bounties. Basically defeats the purpose of having a bounty system
  - Acknowledge them but also remind them about Slack and the discussion system

## Action Items

- [x] Encourage TFs to support students (from @Anitya)
- [x] @Mark Run edge cases to test claiming process
- [x] @Yujeong update GIF instructions using Quicktime and Giphy

## Student Updates/Questions:

- Note
    	 

## TA Updates/Questions:

- Note

- TA Colab on a question- what are the general rules 
  - GURUS Note:
  - We don't encourage collaboration.
  - Only if TA explicitly requests help 

- I solved this thread over zoom https://codepath.slack.com/archives/C02B985PDUZ/p1631076282001900
- And put a very detailed and specific solution afterward. 
  - I’d like feedback on whether you think it is a good idea to put such a detailed and specific solution after solving an issue over zoom. I see a sort of conflict of interest on my role as TA. 
  - If I post a specific solution, then perhaps students who have the same issue in the future search the channel and find the solution. In this way their code issue gets solved, but it is one less issue for our TA team to solve, and thus one less payout for one of our TA’s.
- So I feel like it helps the student, but “hurts” the TA team. I’m thinking one alternative is to put a still helpful but less specific summary of the solution, and in this way it is more likely that a TA would be consulted for the solution. - CL

– GURU RESPONSE: no need to write down detailed solution since it might not work for every student.



