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Can We get a Fourth Custom Close Reason Slot for Cryptocurrency Questions?

questions; stat access is 10k+ rep exclusive): Reason Questions closed (90d) % of closed Ciphertext Analysis / Review 26 13.9% Migrations (none to cryptocurrency sites, 14 to SO) 32 17.11% Homework
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How do I gain enough knowledge to experiment with cryptography?

Check your own homework but get someone else to mark it It goes without saying that during the design process, you should regularly scrutinise your ideas with an adversarial eye. …
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How do I gain enough knowledge to experiment with cryptography?

We can, and do challenge the rules sometimes, like we do with homework questions where we accept more than on other sites. …
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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

We occasionally have a series of questions by the same new user that are obviously crypto homework, with some degree of work towards resolution. (e.g. these: Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4). …
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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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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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Do we want to update the way we handle homework questions?

I personally think finding solutions of homework questions on StackExchange is one of the wonderful things that could've happen. … Now It's the time to ask, with this mindset, "Do we support homework questions more strongly?" …
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Do we want to update the way we handle homework questions?

If there’s a question showing effort and it looks like homework, then we can ask if it’s homework, or just assume and have them say that it’s not. … What about bringing back the homework tag? I’m very strongly in favor. Thanks for taking this issue seriously! …
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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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Crypto.SE, Cryptocurrencies, and Close Reasons: The Way Forward

how we want the new asker modal dialog to be adapted Work out the audience-specific Ciphertext analysis close reason (we are also here until at least the 10th of July) Work out the audience-specific Homework
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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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Do we want to update our "Ask Question" side-bar and if so, how?

Homework dumps? Programming questions? What is the precise wording we want put in there? …
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How to decide making an exception against our community rules

I don't think that is too different from what should be happening normally, and it is very similar to how we handle homework questions. …
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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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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

The main problems at crypto.SE are homework dumps, uninteresting questions, and dupes. We have to deal with them on a case-by-case basis, for there's no other way. … I'm for hints about homework when there is some trace of effort, closing off-topic questions with increased tolerance for the interesting ones, and politely closing dupes. …
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