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Temporary Suspension of the Homework Close Reason (concluded)
And now I think, it is quite apparent that we need a close reason for zero-effort questions to simply save out time, because the absolute majority of questions that were previoulsy closed as homework ...
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Why was homework badge deprecated?
The homework policy and the associated tag is something we have discussed previously at length, so I will refer you to
Do we really need [homework]? [Part 3] - this is where we decided that the tag ...
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Let's not close questions as homework except for blatantly obvious cases (at least for a while)
Pre-experiment stats up to 2016/08/31 16:00 UTC.
Post-experiment stats up to 2016/10/01 16:00 UTC.
Total question statistics
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Think we should now be kinder towards "Homework Questions"
Making the home work policy known
This should really already be the case. Anecdotally I think that we are doing this quite well, but if there are cases where it isn't being done, please do do it.
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Policy on AMIRITE questions
I might as well get things started, to prove that others care too, you know...
My opinion can be summed up with a single image. This is not going to be a well-reasoned or well-organized argument, but ...
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Temporary Suspension of the Homework Close Reason (concluded)
PSA: Please do not flag homework questions for moderator attention...
...because we will not closehammer them.
We would really like to move away from the current homework close reason, this ...
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Do we really need [homework]? [Part 3]
I would like to see it gone.
There was a time, where we were still struggling with the scope of the site and where the community was small and where we were not sure in which way we would like to ...
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Should we completely ban all homework questions?
"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" springs to mind.
Most homework questions I see fall into one of two categories:
the first category is questions like the photo in your ...
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Temporary Suspension of the Homework Close Reason (concluded)
In conclusion ...
Although Wildcat basically already said it, I would like to add a few thoughts and numbers. I have to admit that this illdesigned, untargeted "experiment" did not turn out ...
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Do we really need [homework]? [Part 3]
We should let it die after a rewrite of the homework policy
As is, I think the biggest problem with deleting homework is our mediocre homework policy that somehow asks for some kind of a bookkeeping ...
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Let's talk about effort, shall we?
This very much isn’t a fully thought out answer, but it was a lot longer than I could fit into a comment. Just my two english cent. . .
Effort as a metric for closure
Broadly speaking, I agree ...
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Let's talk about effort, shall we?
My own opinion is broadly the same - I think that "effort" is a poor criterion for judging question quality. I have discussed this before. In my opinion, the most important bit is this:
In one of ...
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Policy on AMIRITE questions
TL;DR Close under HW policy
So, my stance is in the comment section.
My first thought is: close the question, but in the spirit of friendliness, we can still leave a comment saying "yes, you're ...
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Policy on AMIRITE questions
Turn them into canonical questions, close as duplicates.
I personally am not a big fan of these kinds of questions, as they basically already violate our homework policy, which clearly states that a ...
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Let low rep users answer homework questions?
I upvoted the question because it is a good question. However, I do not agree with the suggested proposal.
Stack Exchange’s policy is to attract high-quality questions by delivering high-quality ...
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How to handle users giving away answers to homework questions
When I read your post's title, I thought you were talking about answers. Well, comments aren't a big deal.
What to do when I see a comment that potentially answers a question that should've been ...
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Let's talk about effort, shall we?
If we would like to move away from the "effort" angle, then the tooltip that pops up when hovering over a downvote button should be changed.
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The Homework Close Reason: Another example of over-zealous closure, and a proposal to scale back its scope
I have previously been vocal about my dissatisfaction with the close reason and it is no secret that I want to rework it completely. As a matter of fact, I'd like to even toss in the idea of ...
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How much more effort would you have wanted?
While I did not close this question, I downvoted it, and the reason is quite obvious: revisions 1 and 2 in the revision history are not very good. (I have since retracted the downvote.) The title is ...
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Are we a bit overzealous with closing questions as homework?
I think part of the issue is that the "Homework" close is being double-dipped as a "this question is too basic" close reason. (For the rest of this discussion, I exclude the obvious copy-and-pasted-...
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Feedback on The Experiment
My analysis of the stats
Nothing has really changed at all during the experiment.
My interpretation of the above
Most HW closures are done "correctly", i.e. for blatant homework dumps. I looked ...
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Let low rep users answer homework questions?
Please note that I took the liberty to downvote your question, because I think that
the implementation of the 500 rep suggestion isn't worth the result
everybody should have the right to answer ...
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Is it a bad idea to have an edit only be the addition of the homework tag?
Is it a bad idea to have an edit only be the addition of the homework tag?
Is this too minor of an edit?
No! Having the correct tags under a question is vital.[1] Tags are useful. For high-...
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Why is a well researched chemistry question discredited as homework and closed?
You missed an important point, which is why your calculation led you to ask the question. Note the first comment you received:
Make sure to account for whether H2O is liquid or gas
This describes ...
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Gaps to Fill Without a 'Homework' Close Reason -- Overview
Here's my perspective on tweaking the policy. I've tried to work it from the very fundamentals, rather than carry-forward the three categories you defined.
To be honest, the current homework close ...
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What about the question 'Does adding pure water affects Buffer Solution pH?' justifies its closure as homework?
I agree it is an interesting question.
I voted to close because, in my opinion, it's a combination of an AMIRITE question as well as an invitation for others to explain aqueous acid-base chemistry and ...
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Let low rep users answer homework questions?
I am (as of this post) the fourth highest reputation user and I do not care for this suggestion. Jan is correct in noting that often homework questions are low quality and a poor fit for our model. ...
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The policy of excessively closing questions
There’s so and there’s so. I feel that at least two of those questions were incorrectly closed. For another two, I feel that I understand why they were closed (and I even took part in closing one, ...
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Temporary Suspension of the Homework Close Reason (concluded)
SE is not about today, it is about the interstellar mission to another star system that needs to have available the collected wisdom of humanity soaked into an AI that will be able to offer advice on ...
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