Timeline for Do we want to update the way we handle homework questions?
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| Dec 2, 2022 at 12:27 | history | edited | Maarten BodewesMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2021 at 22:53 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes Mod | We've been relatively kind to comments placed in the answer box if they don't fit into comments. If they only provide hints or are by first-time users, then just comment if an answer doesn't fit, and don't vote down, i.e. be nice. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 10:06 | comment | added | kelalaka | I can argue with leaving with hints and comments. We should not leave the question unanswered. We see the same questions again and again and we cannot mark as duplicate since the first one is not answered. Instead, we should write an answer that contains only the hint and comments. We can write the first line as This is a hint for the homework question to indicate it. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | Yehuda Lindell | @Gilles Where did you see a radical approach? I explicitly stated that if there is something unclear, then we can ask. Also, it’s very reasonable to say “this is not homework” if there is concern. Typically, however, the homework questions are obviously homework. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 22:02 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
Please read the links to other sites' discussion threads in the question. There's a reason why most sites have gotten rid of their homework tag.
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 22:02 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | Closing homework dumps (just a copy or even a scan of the exercise) as unclear is one thing, but forbidding to answer questions because they might plausibly be homework is another. I very strongly reject your culture of not answering, both on philosophical grounds (answering is what we're here for) and on practical grounds (I'm an engineer who never had any crypto homework and learnt on the job, but you'd refuse to answer some of my questions all the same). Your radical anti-anything-that-looks-like-homework policy would make the site useless. | |
| Nov 14, 2018 at 23:10 | comment | added | Wildcard | @AleksanderRas, if they're closed, no one can answer. So comments is the only way to respond. And hints are the only acceptable way (as per this answer) to respond. I would also propose that any answers in comments be promptly deleted for homework questions. | |
| Nov 14, 2018 at 16:23 | comment | added | Yehuda Lindell | I think that they should go unanswered, even though it's different to everything else. | |
| Nov 14, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | Maeher | @AleksanderRas If we are fundamentally opposed to answering homework questions, then even self-answers would need to be discouraged. After all other people searching for the question will find the answer then. So if that's what the community wants, then those questions need to remain unanswered. | |
| Nov 12, 2018 at 8:44 | comment | added | AleksanderCH | I agree with all points, but: Almost all answers here have the same approach to the question "How should hints be delivered?" and that is "comments", so this is pretty much directed to all answers. I get that this makes sense, but what would then qualify as an answer? Wouldn't we have an answer at all for homework questions? And I guess that the OP often wouldn't come back to give their solution after they got hints. | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 16:50 | comment | added | Mikero | As usual, Yehuda beat me to the punch, said it better than I would have, and I agree 100%. | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 16:30 | history | answered | Yehuda Lindell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |