Lately I have found a massive amount of questions tagged solely as homework, for instance
- https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/687358/rounding-up-to-significant-figures
- https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/687400/the-magnitude-of-the-resultant
- prove $v_i=(1^i,2^i,\dots,n^i)$, $i=0,\dots,n-1$ a basis for real $n$-space
- Query: open homework-only questions
- Query: homework-only questions
(thanks to @MartinSleziak for the queries)
Despite the tag description explicitly stating not to use homework as the only tag for a question. What do you think about addressing this issue with
- prohibiting the asker to post a question if it doesn't have a "proper" tag
- reminding (warning) the asker that his question is only tagged as homework and that this is explicitly discouraged and ask him to find an appropriate tag (but allow posting if the asker doesn't find a suitable tag, within a certain time or by clicking a "continue anyways" button)
I find the latter rather appealing, since it may be that an asker doesn't know enough about mathematics or the tags used on this site to find those suitable for his question, but should be encouraged to at least try to find some. On the other hand this might lead to mis-tagged questions, so I'm not sure. Let me hear your opinion.
