Timeline for 2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| Dec 11, 2014 at 8:53 | comment | added | Mark Bennet | Sometimes questions ask for hints rather than solutions, and I see full solutions posted rather too often in response to such requests. There are two types of question "please answer this" and "please help me to answer this". There is also an issue with treating questions of the different types as duplicates of each other. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 20:50 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | @quid: Mathematics is obviously far more likely to attract homework and homework-like questions than many other SE sites. And for most of my time here, my opinion on hints has been the norm here. If anything, people complained about answers that they thought were too complete. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 20:43 | comment | added | quid | @BrianM.Scott I do not see any reason intrinsic to the subject, and as I reminded you other members on the site did not share your opinion on hints. Anyway, the hostility against this question is quite strange. The argument the answer it is too obvious for it being asked is really weird. I have a hard time to take it seriously. By contrast the fact how emotionally some react to the question shows that it would be a good question to ask. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 20:35 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | @quid: I don’t think that MSE is special; different from many other SE sites simply because of its subject and history, but not special. I don’t have much of a sense of how folks at MO feel; I’ve occasionally found useful things there when searching online, but I don’t care for the atmosphere and don’t read the site. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 20:31 | comment | added | quid | @BrianM.Scott yeah I know both on math.SE and MO there are some users that feel everything is so special about their sites. I never quite understood why and am always a bit embarrassed by it. We really represent our profession somewhat poorly here. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 20:21 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | @quid: It’s relevant to the issue of the appropriateness of hints, irrespective of the grounds on which that appropriateness is being questioned. It was also shorthand, albeit perhaps opaque, for ‘MSE has its own culture and purpose’. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 20:00 | comment | added | quid | @BrianM.Scott Okay. But how in the world is that relevant then? OP is not even active on MO, and MO is not even fully part of the network, and whatever the policies are on MO it has essentially nothing to do with networkwide policies. For example, link only answers are fairgame on MO. The fact that hints are not given much on MO, while true, is quite irrelevant to the question proposed. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 19:52 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | @You misunderstood: I was not saying that it was a consequence of the fact that MSE is not MO. My point is that since we are not MO, there is no reason to expect that what constitutes a good answer here will necessarily be the same as what constitutes a good answer there. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 19:36 | comment | added | quid | @BrianM.Scott maybe discuss how obvious this is with JDH. Anyway, I did not even complain about you saying that this is frequently the most appropriate answer but you suggesting it is a consequence of MSE not being MO. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 19:34 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | @quid: Not in the least. I'm pointing out that the question ought to be completely unnecessary (as indeed I very much hope that it is). | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 20:40 | comment | added | quid | @BrianM.Scott Very nice example of a non-sequitur! :-) | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 20:29 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | It should go without saying that a (good) hint is frequently the most appropriate answer to a question. MSE isn’t MO. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 13:50 | comment | added | quid | Good question! This is a policy that was not discussed much lately AFAIK, but still very relevant. // @Dilaton So what? If a candidate thinks this standards exists "rightly so" they can reply this, preferably providing a rational, if they don't, they can reply something else. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 9:34 | comment | added | Dilaton | The Math SE community has rightly so its own standards and cultures, -1. If the community thinks hints are useful and appropriate in some situations, this is exclusively their business. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 7:59 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |