Timeline for The Terms of Service currently prevent posting hint answers.
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| Apr 9, 2016 at 19:49 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @DaveL.Renfro Such hint notation has been used since the dawn of the site, e.g. you can find it frequently in my posts. | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 4:44 | comment | added | mathreadler | Often the problem when learning something involves not knowing what to ask about or how to formulate a question about it. Without allowing answers which don't strictly answer a question but could help formulating better questions the answers to those better questions will probably not be had. | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 19:41 | comment | added | quid | @DaveL.Renfro I have seen it a plenty; I would go as far as calling it pervasive here. I did not mean to call out anybody specifically. | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 18:23 | comment | added | Dave L. Renfro | @quid: Regarding Hint: usage, I do this sometimes (usually as a comment, but every now and then as an answer)---even with the boldface and a colon aspects, which leads me to wonder if I started this particular style in which boldface and colon are used (although to be honest, I don't know if I've seen it outside of my own responses). For what it's worth, I was simply copying the style I used on LaTeX prepared tests and quizzes from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s, when I thought a certain question might be too difficult and decided to gave a hint. | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 12:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMath/status/718055855019712512 | ||
| Apr 4, 2016 at 10:12 | comment | added | quid | @MXYMXY No, you should not, in my opinion. This has nothing to do with the ToS though. Instead, of hints you can give a terse answer or even only a sketch of an answer. The difference is that a "terse/sketch of an answer" comes with the implicit promise that it works, while a "hint" does not commit to anything. Moreover, stylistically it is not a good choice. | |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 7:16 | comment | added | S.C.B. | @quid, Should I not give answers that say Hints? | |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 21:08 | comment | added | bof | @wythagoras Where do you ( where do the ToS) draw the line between "Hint: use induction" and omitting the most trivial step? | |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 16:25 | comment | added | wythagoras | @bof I agree with you that many of the questions on this site are incomplete, but my problem is that Hint answers are currently forbidden by the ToS, while good hints are encouraged and used by most people. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:57 | comment | added | bof | Why your emphasis on answers? I find many of the questions on this site to be seriously incomplete. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:27 | answer | added | John Bentin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 30, 2016 at 8:33 | history | edited | OdedStaff |
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 21:00 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @quid: I had a professor in undergrad, that if time would have permitted, he would require all the answers to his exams to begin by stating the axioms of logic and axioms of set theory and deriving more or less everything. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 20:55 | comment | added | quid | @Asaf this is close to "official policy" :-) | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 20:48 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | I postulate that anything less than a computer verifiable proof written in Coq or another establish proof assistant is incomplete!!!!!! The entire website is outlawed!!!!! | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 20:31 | answer | added | quid | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 20:11 | answer | added | zyx | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:24 | comment | added | quid | @404 first and foremost, the intent is to safeguard against malice. What is forbidden is to spread misinformation via omission. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:16 | comment | added | user147263 | @quid This raises the question of what kind of incomplete material is actually meant to be prohibited by the ToS. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:15 | comment | added | quid | Indeed, I do not think that hints are incomplete material, in any case not in the sense intended there. (And I say this as somebody that has a serious dislike for HINTS: and would be quite happy to eradicate them.) | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:11 | history | edited | quid |
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:11 | comment | added | wythagoras | @quid As in, you don't think that hints are incomplete material? | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:10 | comment | added | quid | This reading of the TOS is absurd. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:07 | history | asked | wythagoras | CC BY-SA 3.0 |