Timeline for Should we change homework policy of physics.SE?
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 12:16 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @peterh That's again completely against both the 'anyone can ask' and the 'we judge content not people' ethos. Please think these proposals through even a little bit before shooting from the hip. | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 12:07 | comment | added | peterh | @EmilioPisanty Well, you are right. But I have a new idea then: homework questions are allowed only and only if they have a bounty as well. This would be essentially the same requirement (min. 75 rep, 1 allowed homework question / 50 rep). | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 11:27 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @peterh So, just to be clear: you're proposing to write an extension that will tell you more information about the poster when you're deciding whether to close a question or not? If that is the case, you really are breaking the cardinal rule here: we close questions based exclusively on the merit of the question itself, and not based on any consideration of the poster, and particularly not based on any consideration of the poster's asking history. | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 7:58 | comment | added | peterh | @EmilioPisanty No, it was only a theoretical possibility. Around 95% of the hw questions is coming from rep1 (or <100) users, in their case nothing would be needed. In the few remaining cases, anybody could check this without any browser extensions. After the check, a "hw-repcheck-passed" or "hw-repcheck-failed" tag could show, how to vote in the vtc queue. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:51 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @peterh Yes, you could implement it, but: so what? Do you want to make it compulsory? What good is an extension that stops you from asking questions if you can just turn it off? The only thing that saves this proposal from being fundamentally misguided is how meaningless, unenforceable, and ill-thought-out it is. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:17 | comment | added | peterh | @EmilioPisanty I could write a firefox extension for that in 2 hours. It would simply check the reputation of the OP, and the number of his questions tagged with "homework-and-exercises" (for example, my list is here). | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:15 | comment | added | peterh | @RafaelWagner the question wouldn't be closed, it would only mean that it wouldn't be closed on the homework rule. It is totally independent from the other relevant rules. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:15 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | Either way, it's unclear what you mean by "it could easily be tested". How do any of those tools tell you how the community would behave under a rule which has never even closely been implemented? | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:14 | comment | added | peterh | @RafaelWagner "This would also lead users to try to answer questions." <- I don't understand, why would it be a problem, I think it is exactly what you want. "Or just edit questions but getting 100 rep is a very difficult thing for new users." <- Editing questions to get 100 rep is very hard, this is what I do on the networkengineering.stackexchange.com since weeks and I am far from being ready. Anyways, also editing questions improves the site, this is why they get rep for that. "And we would still have to ban bad questions..." <- Yes, of course having the 100 rep wouldn't mean that | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @peterh What on Earth does "house rule" mean? You want to close questions based on the reputation of the OP and their question history? That's also completely against the basic ethos, this time on the fact that we (should) judge questions exclusively on their content, not their poster. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:11 | comment | added | peterh | @EmilioPisanty It could be also a house rule. I inserted it into the post. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:11 | history | edited | peterh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 18:03 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | This goes directly against the basic Stack Exchange ethos that anybody can ask a question. As such, I give it exactly zero percent chances of being implemented by the Stack Exchange team. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 17:58 | comment | added | user78217 | This would also lead users to try to answer questions. Or just edit questions but getting 100 rep is a very difficult thing for new users. And we would still have to ban bad questions because not every homework question is a good question for the site as the other answers pointed out. But this is not a bad idea in my opinion. | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 17:44 | history | answered | peterh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
