Straighterline won't allow me to fail?

[Thorne]

Why be snarky about it? I see tons of complaints in here about institutions setting policy but then adding terms arbitrarily, or not enforcing policy consistently. Sometimes we can get around it or call people out, and situations get corrected. Sometimes not. And sometimes folks just want to vent. 

"In the time it took you to bitch about it, you could have..."
Not really. I can be just 100 words short on a paper, but it might take a LOT longer to write those last 100 words than the first 100. How good does that filler need to be? The guy/gal here said they tried to add filler and still got rejected. If you did 3 minutes, and the requirement was 30 minutes, would it take you just 27 minutes of work to finish out the assignment?

I just don't understand the need people seem to have to jump on someone's back for venting. Not in a forum like this, anyway.

That's a bit exaggerated (3 to 30 minutes), but I get your point.

To everyone saying, "You do what's required to pass the class," OP did, like I pointed out in my analysis of StraighterLine's own rules. 

Now, adding the filler to 6 minutes and getting rejected is utter BS. I'm willing to accept that maybe they have hidden policies about formatting where if you don't meet the default parameters of time/length then they won't accept it, but if OP did a 6 minute presentation, they need to grade his paper and stop hiding behind "administrative policy."