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Just to put this out there, here's an idea: Nuke questions that are "Solve this problem for me" type questions that should be nuked even under the current policy. This will take some work to go thro …

I've been noticing another trend that brings up a counter-point to my "let's nuke it" answer I posted previously. Many homework-like questions are answered by lower-rep users. It would be a case of …

So I am noticing something that will likely crop up later and leave the results of this inconclusive... There are a lot of low-level homework questions coming in and getting closed. These are the ty …

Against better judgement, I will engage but with the warning now that I don't really plan on participating in a discussion; I will simply post my answer and move on. This is our sandbox. We (as in t …

We talked about it briefly in chat about starting a Topic of the Week event, akin to what is done at Astronomy and Space SE. I had proposed something similar here previously based on what was done at …

I guess there isn't really a question to answer here but it's more of a discussion thing than anything else. The idea behind each Stack setting its own policies is that each one can be tailored to a …

To answer the specific question about the benefit of deleting answers to homework questions, I'll cite the homework policy itself: Why don't you provide a complete answer to homework questions? This …

My take on this is two-fold: First, don't start edit wars. If you put something on a question, and somebody later removes it, don't just go back in and put it back again and leave comments about it. …

I have the same objection to this that dmckee had last time we talked about this. Essentially, everybody who posts a question on this site wants a problem solved. The problem may be lack of understa …

Just a hunch (I can't do any better than that, I don't know the topic nor did I vote to close), but I think the reason may be that your question looks like a "Check my work" kind of question. I say …

I'm inclined to agree with your original assessment -- this is not a good example of the kinds of questions we want. And, as a regular user, I would have voted to close it if I had seen it prior to th …

Our homework policy is mostly about asking homework-like questions, but there is a policy for how to answer them as well near the end of it: Why don't you provide a complete answer to homework que …

My time machine took me back 6 years and found this alternate wording (updated to include the same check-my-work link and slightly changed to fit character limits): Homework-like questions should …