Timeline for Suggestion regarding the 'homework' issue
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| Aug 7, 2012 at 1:22 | comment | added | Makoto Kato | @CarlMummert What makes you think a question looks like homework? | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 13:32 | comment | added | Aryabhata | @T..: If you would care to look at the top voted answer in meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/914/… you will see links to what are the current community voted guidelines regarding homework. If you don't like them, please feel free to raise the issues which you think the guidelines fail to address in those relevant threads. And please stop attaching absurd names to folks who are just following those guidelines. | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 12:49 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | While I try not to be a busybody Citizens' Patrol, I do generally point out when a question looks like homework. If it would be preferable to tag the question with "poorly-motivated, unsourced, and very local" that would be fine with me, although with the limit of four tags we might run out of space very quickly if the question has many problems. However, saying "this looks like homework" is not the same as actually tagging a question as homework, which I would not do unless the asker said the problem was homework. | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 0:18 | comment | added | user856 | @T..: Perhaps you should start a new meta thread about the "citizen patrols". While I wouldn't put it that strongly, I agree that homework questions are sometimes met with more negativity than is perhaps warranted. However, it is difficult to discuss this in the comments thread of this question, which is about a different suggestion. | |
| Oct 23, 2010 at 22:21 | answer | added | anon | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 23, 2010 at 21:47 | comment | added | r_31415 | @T: Looking for the pattern that you referred to, and I think it looks like you are right, although maybe the issue with those people is to have questions in which the author doesn't provide any sign of previous work. | |
| Oct 23, 2010 at 20:19 | comment | added | T.. | @Paul: yes, I made a compilation and will post it in the other thread --- as requested by one of the main homework inquisitors. Also, in the comment you are answering, it should read "not because the community as a whole has determined that sometimes-undisclosed homework per se is a problem (rather than...)". | |
| Oct 23, 2010 at 20:18 | comment | added | Paul VanKoughnett | You want to name names and give links, T..? | |
| Oct 23, 2010 at 20:15 | comment | added | T.. | The trouble arises only because a very small number of activist users -- predominantly just one or two -- occupy themselves with identifying homework, not because the community as a whole has determined that homework per se (rather than questions that are [unsourced], questions that request [specified-method] for solution, questions that are [numerically-specific], etc). As far as these obsessive homework inquisitions (1) lead to false accusations or (2) are made by those who don't then answer the question, they are a busybody Citizens' Patrol and this behavior is noxious for the site. | |
| Oct 23, 2010 at 19:41 | comment | added | r_31415 | I see what you are saying. However, I think that around the 'homework' category revolves most of the troubles that in turn give rise to some discussions (i.e. meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/914/…). | |
| Oct 23, 2010 at 19:26 | comment | added | T.. | A checklist or form for optional information about a posting would certainly be useful, but for a much larger category of postings than homework, and there are many other pieces of information that would be useful for displaying or searching the postings: problem source ("original" would attract much attention, "olympiad" has its own audience, etc), level of difficulty, level of answer sought, and many others. Homework is, as always, not a specially relevant category for proposing upgrades to the site, though of course having [homework] as one of the checklist items can be informative. | |
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