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Applies to meta questions about "homework"-tagged questions on the main site.

3 votes
4 answers
179 views

Poll: do you ignore the homework tag?

I want to tackle an teensy tiny bit of the homework debate: How many people set the homework tag on their ignore list as a way to improve their experience of the site? This is one of the arguments fo …
Emilio Pisanty's user avatar
26 votes
7 answers
774 views

Banning homework: vote and documentation

It was proposed recently on meta that, as part of a broader programme of increasing the site quality, we ban homework questions altogether. This proposal seems to have really quite strong support. On …
Emilio Pisanty's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
539 views

About the proposal to ban homework

This question arose out of a time with a lot of discussion on meta about how this site could be improved; it was proposed that we ban homework and this question explored how that would look like and w …
Emilio Pisanty's user avatar
13 votes
4 answers
200 views

Can we include homework guidance in the How to Ask sidebar?

This question is a follow-up to this question about what some of us feel is a large spike in low-level homework questions. I propose we include a specific link to our canonical homework meta question …
Emilio Pisanty's user avatar
14 votes
8 answers
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Getting a better understanding of how and why off-topic homework-like questions get answered...

Background This is a follow-up to What happened with the experiment to lower the vote-to-close threshold?. (See that thread, and the initial proposal here, for background.) The experiment is currently …
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