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Asking homework questions

Is it desirable for people to ask a homework question here? Set aside for now the question of how this would be enforced. I'm more interesting in the policy question, and in our goals. … Do we want people to post their homework questions here? Do we want to post complete answers to homework questions? …
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Blacklist the "homework" tag

homework should be blacklisted. We had the discussion once before about what to do about homework. There it was agreed that homework questions are find but we didn't like meta tags like homework. …
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How to answer homework questions?

I hate seeing a homework question, because I never know how to answer. It has been decided before that good homework questions are acceptable, but there was no real guidance on how to answer them. … What if someone later has the same problem but it is not homework? What if there already is a duplicate question that gives the answer? …
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Homework: Hints in comments or answers?

Our current homework policy—for homework questions that demonstrate effort and are not simply copypasta of the exercise—is to leave hints in comments, not in answers. … This means that we can't mark duplicate homework questions as such, because a question can be closed as a duplicate of another question only if the other question has answers. …
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What's up with the homework tag?

I thought we had decided to avoid the homework tag, for all the reasons listed there. In addition, the homework tag is a "meta tag", which are generally not a good idea on StackExchange sites. … Should we remove the homework tag from all of those questions, and delete the homework tag and agree to avoid its use in the future or add it to a tag blacklist? …
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Do we want to update the way we handle homework questions?

Just today and yesterday there were at least two questions that showed no effort and just copy-pasted their cryptography homework assignments. … While we do have a bit of discussion on the topic of homework (see the homework tag), most of it is a couple of years old at this point and stems from a time when activity on Crypto.SE was considerably …
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Should we vote to close low-quality/homework questions, and if so, how?

We get scores of low-quality or homework questions where someone just pastes a question into the question box and hits submit. … From the help center: Do we accept basic level/homework questions? Yes, we do. …
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What to do with raw dump of homework?

We recently had examples of rather basic homework or classwork questions, presented as such, asked without anything but affirmation that the poster tried and failed to solve them. …
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How to decide making an exception against our community rules

As a community, we agreed on many subjects, on-off topics, homework questions, etc. …
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Capture the flag questions

Or should we treat them like homework questions and only give hints? If the answer is to close them (or downvote & close them) what should be the close reason? Should we create a new one for it? …
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How to ask a good question for Cryptography.SE

Most of the time we see that the questions are weak No background is given; CTF, homework, the source. …
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Some Ideas to reduce Analyze, help, how to decrypt the ciphertext questions

question, AFAIK, we cannot leave the question to the community. update 04.02.2017: On the Tour of the Math.SE, they put an item with a link; Hints on mathematical problems (but please read our FAQ about homework … questions) similarly, we can do the same for homework and help analyze type questions. …
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Is it OK to ask which cryptographic technique has been used?

I've explicitly mentioned that I wasn't looking for anyone to do my "homework". I would like to do this on my own but would definitely appreciate any tips to get me started in the right direction. …
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Homework: Hints in comments or answers?

We should update the policy to close homework questions without hints. Crypto.SE is not a homework help service. Hint-only questions clutter up the site with exchanges of limited utility. … We want to discourage homework questions. If they are ever upvoted or answered, the questions will never go away otherwise. (Fill in reasons why, Community!) …
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How to suceed in cryptography MCQ questions?

It's inspired by this question closed as homework without enough effort shown. …
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