Timeline for Answering homework questions and downvoting
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| Oct 25, 2014 at 15:52 | comment | added | nickalh | "... I consider comments vastly more useful, both to the writer and to later readers." I think voting to close a question simply because it appears to be a homework question without two or three sentences of specific improvement requests is rude. I personally would much rather we encourage & invite the asker to show some effort & thought, because students learn far more by discovery. However, site guidelines discourage asking poster too many questions. | |
| Oct 25, 2014 at 15:43 | comment | added | nickalh | I would like to double or triple Brian M.'s upvote | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 1:25 | comment | added | David | @Jyrki I agree with you regarding hints, but I get the impression that there are a certain number of people around who disapprove of hints and will downvote them regardless of whether or not they are helpful. | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 10:39 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | You were a bit unlucky. Answering with a hint is IMHO the way to go, when the question is simple (in its context), but it does require a bit of experience. A good hint should (at least ideally) be convincing - so that everybody who "gets" the hint will see a route to the destination. May be your hint failed to convince the people who read it in this regard? As you see from the other answer the question was anything but plain sailing even given your hint (I haven't checked the accepted answer, so...). For the record: I did not downvote your answer. I usually don't spend much time in that tag. | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 2:53 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | This is one of the main reasons I don’t downvote on the main site: I consider comments vastly more useful, both to the writer and to later readers. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 20:45 | history | answered | w0g | CC BY-SA 3.0 |