Timeline for Is the site being too lenient in helping people with homework?
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| May 2, 2015 at 9:21 | comment | added | Sean O'Donovan | @Did My disagreement is at a fundamental level re child-rearing which is not a fitting subject for this board hence I do not wish to discuss it futher. | |
| May 2, 2015 at 9:02 | comment | added | Did | @SeanO'Donovan I see a chain of hypotheses and deductions in Lord_Farin's last comment. Do you disagree with each and every part of it, or only globally, I am curious? | |
| May 1, 2015 at 15:23 | comment | added | Sean O'Donovan | @LordFarin I think we are poles apart..Best we simply agree to differ. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 15:03 | comment | added | Lord_Farin | @Sean Under the presumption that all questions here are asked out of curiosity by users such as yourself, the statement "The mere existence of a question on here is sufficient justification for an answer" is true. Sadly, the premise is blatantly false, as can be observed on a daily basis. So, to get back to "How do you distinguish between someone such as myself or a school-pupil trying to avoid work", the answer is: We attempt to do this by requiring a bit of context. Lastly, note the difference between "asking for help" and "asking for a solution". | |
| May 1, 2015 at 13:30 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2015 at 10:44 | comment | added | Sean O'Donovan | @Najib If everyone thought along those lines I would agree with you. Fortunately not all do. Just to put things in perspective, over the last couple of years I have worked through some 3500 to 4000 exercises in the textbooks I have dating to the late 50s early 60s. Of these I have had trouble with just one Algebra problem and three Geometry ones. Of those 3 I have put two on here. The first I came up with an answer myself before I got a response and the second has just been answered in a straightforward manner. If someone is willing to answer that is good. If not it hardly matters, does it? | |
| May 1, 2015 at 10:38 | comment | added | Sean O'Donovan | @quid I can certainly understand that in some cases background context could be useful but definitely not in all . Over-complication is the curse of many an incorrect answer and there are plenty of times where a simple answer is required to a simple question. Knowing that the question comes from an out-of-print textbook originally published in 1939 isn't going to help anyone. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 9:59 | comment | added | quid | The main point of including context is not to decide whose questions should be answered but to allow for more focused answers, and also to simplify the task for the user answering. In addition, for example including the book from where the problem originates will allow for better discoverability later on. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 9:59 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | "someone has the authority to decide whose question shall or shall not be answered, is or is not deserving of an answer" But that is precisely the case. Once one gathers 3000 rep points, one can vote to put questions on hold and eventually closed (see here for details). These questions cannot be answered (well, in principle; there are loopholes, like answering in comments, or even editing the question to include the answer). So if this is truly anathema to you, math.SE might not be the website for you. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 9:51 | comment | added | Sean O'Donovan | @quid..I could do as you suggest but that would be to imply that someone has the authority to decide whose question shall or shall not be answered, is or is not deserving of an answer. Such is anathema to me. The mere existence of a question on here is sufficient justification for an answer (in my view, naturally). Helping someone who asks for help is (or should be) sufficient reward in itself. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 8:39 | comment | added | quid | This is an interesting context, and you could include a version of it in your questions (in case you do not do so already). It does not have to be too long or word, it even should not be, but saying: "This is a problem from chapter on [some subject] in [some book], which I am working through out of general interest: [The problem]. I was able to do the problems before that one in this section, like [Problem you can do] but this one I find difficult because [some reason]." could add value to a post.. (Some will recommend to start with the problem and give the context later in post.) | |
| May 1, 2015 at 7:48 | history | answered | Sean O'Donovan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |