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Allowing mathematical and homework questions on this site
I'm sorry, but the idea that our site policies are "controlling the learning of other less knowledgeable students of the universe" is just plainly ridiculous. That people on the internet won'...
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Allowing mathematical and homework questions on this site
What's wrong with a homework-like question? Homework questions are specially written to expand and question one's understanding - it's a totally valid way of learning. If you think someone's trying to ...
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Allowing mathematical and homework questions on this site
Personally, I think it is fine for a site to decide what is on-topic and what is off-topic for the site. A different choice wouldn’t have been wrong, but having a specific policy (whatever it is) ...
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Why is there a homework tag if the posts keep getting closed?
I think this post emphasizes, once more, a real problem of PSE: some inconsistency between the stated policy of the site and how it is applied in practice.
The stated policy says
"A 'homework ...
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Do we need a popular videos tag or specific author tags?
No, these tags describe the sources of the questions themselves, not the subject matter of the question. Hence, you would not be able to tag a question with any one of those, making them dependent on ...
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Allowing mathematical and homework questions on this site
If you believe in physics you should want it to grow - stop controlling the learning of other less knowledgeable students of the universe - it's not big and you're hampering our progression as a ...
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Why is there a homework tag if the posts keep getting closed?
In my opinion the homework tag shouldn't exist. This site should care about question quality only, not the motivation behind the question.
Furthermore, the homework policy should be renamed and not ...
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Why is there a homework tag if the posts keep getting closed?
In general, tags are very useful tool in searching the site.
Whether a question is on-topic or off-topic is determined by the Phys.SE community (partly via close & reopen votes), and its ...
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Why is there a homework tag if the posts keep getting closed?
I follow GiorgioP answer and as first, maybe trivial, thing I stress the conceptual uncertainty about the word "homework": if I have a question about a passage regarding a propagator I can ...
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