Timeline for Replacing the homework policy 1: what existing questions should be on/off topic?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://physics.stackexchange.com/ with https://physics.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 27, 2016 at 18:31 | comment | added | sammy gerbil | I fully sympathise with the question-setter : "In my defence it's impossible to show the workouts because I don't understand the situation." I had to read through the question, comments and answers twice before I understood what the problem was. Ilya's hint and answer only confused me further. If the questioner cannot understand the meaning of the question, I think it is unfair to penalise him. He is not too lazy to think, he is simply stumped by a bizarre situation. Once you understand what the question is asking, it is quite an instructive puzzle. So I think this is 'on topic.' | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:15 | history | edited | David ZMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
add voting instructions
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 2:18 | comment | added | David Z Mod | @DanielSank Just seeing this now, but let me say that in order for the answers here to be most useful, I'd want people to vote down answers corresponding to questions that would have to be edited to be on topic. (I mean... technically I did ask whether people think the questions should be on topic or not, I didn't ask whether people think they should be closed or not. :-P) | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 8:08 | comment | added | DanielSank | I think I'd edit this as suggested by @dmckee and leave it open. It's silly to close a question because it's missing a single sentence which you could add in fifteen seconds. Also note that this question highlights that whether or not a post is motivated by homework is irrelevant in whether or not it should be on topic. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 9:46 | comment | added | David Z Mod | Yeah, I'm kind of with @dmckee that this could easily be edited into a much better question. That being said, here we want consider the question as written, not what it could be edited to be. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 3:21 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Mod | It's just possible that you're defining "conceptual question" as "one to which John Rennie can give a great conceptual answer". I think the question should be edited a bit, so that it can become the conceptual question it deserves to be and then it would be unquestionable on-topic. Something along the lines of adding "A naive analysis would be to note that both rods are subject to the same downward force and assume they were each stretched by the same amount, but this turns out not to be the case." Just before the existing "Why". | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 4:46 | comment | added | Stan Shunpike | No work shown tho. Like what has the person done to answer the question? Its like a fine question, but i feel like w/o work it is sorta hard to accept it. As a frequent hw question asker on math se, i always try to like give a really good faith attempt. I feel if i dont post my work, people have every right to assume i did none. Showing work imo is like courteous. It shows u arent using ppl but like have worked and just need a helping hand. | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 17:30 | comment | added | Bill N | I like your comment Kyle, but then the OP would fall under the "unclear what you are asking" category, wouldn't it? Regarding that category, I think it could be split into "you need to be more specific and coherent", "you really haven't asked a question", and "this is a nonsense question". Maybe the original category is "too broad". | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 10:15 | comment | added | Kyle Kanos | I'm not strongly opinionated on v1 of the linked question. I think it could be better if OP added more about what's confusing him, but I'm not terribly convinced that it's too broad or homework-like. | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 7:30 | history | answered | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |