This is definitely not a good practice. Whenever you see a literal true or false you should always ask yourself if you can get rid of it by analyzing the boolean expression. Most of the time you only need to return the result of the boolean expression, as in this case.

You don't need ternany operator.

I doubt the never ending loop caused it. Well based on my experienced, I actually tried to run a forever loop just to see (just of curiousity hehe). They hanldled it so well i guess just forgot what happened but certainly not that one. Most of the time that I encountered that is when my internet connection is too slow.

Though this idea is awesome. It sounds lazy too. Why would you want this site to cater your needs as a teacher? If you're that busy to complain about such simple things for your own good, why make yourself busy creating something for you to work out things with? No offense here. just sayin.