Timeline for Why don't we just ban homework altogether?
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| Nov 21, 2013 at 18:59 | history | wiki removed | ManishearthMod | ||
| Nov 3, 2013 at 13:29 | comment | added | JSQuareD | @Manishearth I agree that removing the HW tag on the short term would probably cause more problems that it would solve. But I think it should be a long term goal to get rid of it. Changing the tag-description and the HW-policy to reflect this might help us move in the right direction. | |
| Nov 3, 2013 at 13:27 | comment | added | Manishearth Mod | @JSQuareD You're right. However, in the current state, HW questions flood the main page for quite a while before they get closed, and most of the community prefers to not see the transient questions. I'd prefer the tag to be gone, too, but it might be best to phase it out -- ban homework, improve the way we handle closeable questions, and finally get rid of the tag if we ever reach a state where HW is quickly dispatched with. | |
| Nov 3, 2013 at 13:24 | comment | added | JSQuareD | @Manishearth IMO the very existence of the HW tag encourages HW (specifically, unconceptual questions). Simple as that. | |
| Nov 1, 2013 at 14:41 | comment | added | Manishearth Mod | Also, I fear that there may be a lot of people opposing the removal of the tag. Almost all of the current HW questions get closed too, just not fast enough. (and people don't downvote even though that leads to them disappearing from the front page). So they may want to keep the tag to hide away the transients. But I guess that's a different problem. | |
| Nov 1, 2013 at 14:35 | comment | added | Manishearth Mod | Technically, homework is banned, just that it's not clear from the wording. What parts of the policy do you think still encourage HW? (also, what do you think of my proposed wording change? That would be one practical way of banning homework without losing out on the good stuff) | |
| Nov 1, 2013 at 14:27 | history | answered | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |