Timeline for Policy on Homework questions
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:56 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 13, 2012 at 14:21 | comment | added | rm -rf Mod |
I voted to close that example you linked to as "Too Localized". It' just a big code dump with no context. As seen from the answers, the issue is most likely something along the lines of _?NumericQ, of which there are several dupes. So if not "Too Localized", it'd be closed as an "Exact Duplicate", but I don't feel for the latter, because it's not worth keeping around.
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| Jun 13, 2012 at 12:43 | comment | added | Leonid Shifrin | @belisarius Yes you are right. It is just that it is more likely that homework questions will be like that, but I agree that the set of questions I was talking about is not the same as the set of homework questions (although perhaps they have the large overlap). | |
| Jun 13, 2012 at 12:24 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius | @Leonid Your edit shows very good points, but I think they tell apart good and bad questions, not HW and beginner's. As Socrates teach us, the way a person asks a question shows the way he/she/it thinks, and not his/her/its stage on life. A convoluted and not cared for question depicts a confused individual. Beneath a neat and to the point question is a sharp mind. Student or not. A student copying literally a HW question without any other information about his thinking process is probably too lazy and lacks drive to learn. No difference with other kinds of bad Qs like the one you linked. | |
| Jun 13, 2012 at 11:04 | history | edited | Leonid Shifrin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a link to a recent HW question
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| Jun 13, 2012 at 9:17 | history | edited | Leonid Shifrin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a section clarifying my concerns
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| Jun 12, 2012 at 8:34 | comment | added | Leonid Shifrin | @Ajasja ... relax the rules later, but we may not be able to make them stricter (even if we later decide that this must be done) if we start with relaxed rules now. I would be much less hostile to these questions once I see that our community has grown to be larger and more stable, going into some kind of steady state. I don't think we reached that stage already. | |
| Jun 12, 2012 at 8:31 | comment | added | Leonid Shifrin | @Ajasja This could be the case. I may be over-reacting and over-estimating the "threat", but I think we need to have a uniform and well-understood policy towards these questions, since they can be many, and we can find ourselves in trouble sooner than we realize what is happening. Since we are still in Beta, and under development (as a community), I favor the conservative viewpoint that the default is no (this does not mean always no). This is something well-defined. Once we see how it goes and have more intermediate-level users, we can relax it. My point is, we will always be able to ... | |
| Jun 12, 2012 at 8:15 | comment | added | Ajasja | There are a few good points made here, but perhaps a homework tag does alleviate some of the mentioned problems? Since then the top user could just ignore the tag and the intermediate users would get a chance to solve some problems and gain some rep (thus having more fun on the site). | |
| Jun 11, 2012 at 19:06 | history | answered | Leonid Shifrin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |