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24 questions linked to/from (homework) tag should be deprecated (Voting's over! You won't believe what won!)
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How to ask a good question.
How to ask a good question.
This thread has advice on the following aspects of writing a good question on this site. Each item in this list links to an answer below about that specific aspect of ...
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List of comment templates
Inspired by this question on meta.cstheory.SE. The post at meta.Tex.SE is quite impressive.
We often leave generic comments to OP and answer posters such as "if this is a homework, please add a tag," ...
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How to ask a homework question
How to ask a homework question
Can I ask a homework question here?
How do I ask a homework question on this website?
What information should I include in a question about homework?
Why don't you ...
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What do we do with users who post numerous unlabeled homework questions?
User student has, quite impressively, recognized that all of user6560's questions are homework questions from the ongoing course Math 620 at the University of Buffalo. I just went through, downvoted ...
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Fate of the (homework) tag: The community voted.... now what?
Well, the results of the voting seem pretty conclusive:
Leave homework alone: 43 upvotes (20.38%)
Deprecate but don't delete homework: 12 upvotes (5.69%)
Burninate and blacklist homework: ...
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How to discourage users from using the "functions" tag
The following is the tag info for the functions tags:
In mathematics, a function is a relation between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs with the property that each input is related ...
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Proper use of the (homework) tag redux [closed]
When, if ever, is it appropriate to add the homework tag to a question that has not been acknowledged by the OP to be homework?
My position is that it is never appropriate, full stop. It’s fine to ...
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I will be asking questions about a text that I will be going through, do I need to keep mentioning that?
I just started trying to read through Lectures on the Hyperreals: An Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis, by Robert Goldblatt. I expect to be asking a bunch of questions, including verification of ...
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The "meta-tags".
What are the tags reference-request, soft-question, big-list for? When are they used? When should they not be used?
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Which are blacklisted tags and blacklisted phrases?
There are many tags which are blacklisted. And so are some strings/words/phrases in the title.
Is it possible to have a list of them publicly available somewhere?
As I was told by a moderator in ...
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Suggestion for "Hint-Only" Tag
For people who only want guidance in understanding how to approach the problem, as opposed to seeing a fully fleshed out solution.
Would this tag be useful?
Am new to this site, so don't want to ...
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What's on-topic and off-topic, really?
This post is made in response to this thread, which asked for the error in a purported proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. After an upvote/downvote war (the downvotes have currently narrowly won), it was ...
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Request for a tag for homework hints/evolution rather than solution
I realize this is not a new topic. But I've noticed that I'm not the only one getting really frustrated by the standard behavior here. Some of us teacher types are willing to engage the OP in a ...
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How Should I ask Questions that I just need Hints on?
So I'm starting to work through a real analysis textbook, but I'm not great at math so I expect I'll get suck working through some of the proofs/problems. Sometimes I need a hint. The book has a few, ...
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Do we really want a [homework] tag? [closed]
What is the purpose of a [homework] tag? It can't be to differentiate homework questions from non-homework ones since it's impossible to verify whether or not a question is homework. I don't think ...
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