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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! …

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 …

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? …

It might not even be accurate in terms of whether the question is actually homework. It creates a culture of "is this homework?" comments, usually three or four at a time. … So, in short, I am not so keen on meta tags like 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. …

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. …

Is it a blunt homework question? When such thing happen I don't think this helps the community growing. I try to get more people on the website. I advertise a lot. …

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 …

First, the question did indeed include a verbatim copy of the first two paragraphs of this homework question from Dan Boneh's Introduction to Cryptography on Coursera. … Indeed, the text quoted from the homework exercise seems to me the bare minimum necessary to provide essential context for understanding the question. …

One thing I don't like as homework has crept up is that now (and I am guilty of this too) we often ask "is this homework?". If we get rid of homework we should also stop this behavior too. … This is true whether or not the question is homework, so we really don't need to know. At that point, it doesn't matter if the OP's question is homework. …

There is also a whole slew of badly formatted homework questions being fired at the site. …

Homework and CTFs (alternative wording) Questions asking for solutions to crypto puzzles or homework exercises are off-topic. … Relevant meta Q&A's Same as for Maarten's proposal, including: Asking homework questions How to answer homework questions? Do we want to update the way we handle 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? …

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 …

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. …