#Overview There has been some concerns lately about whether we close too much. So we start giving leniency a chance. Scroll down to What we do to get to the fun part. Read the rest if you're interested.

#Why we do

#What we do

#Why would we

Overview

There has been some concerns lately about whether we close too much. So we start giving leniency a chance. Scroll down to What we do to get to the fun part. Read the rest if you're interested.

Why we do

What we do

Why would we

However, when one of our two only Socrates's is concerned about excessive closure, we have a problem. In fact, this was not realized just today. We ourselves had some concerns, expressed before on meta, and there were some fruitless efforts to come up with more objective ways of closing questions as homework. Well, buckle up. It's time for real action.

That is, the ones that ask for calculations, without any effort on behalf of the asker. Here's one such example. (Imgur mirror for <10k users.)

However, it's not obvious whether the typed out ones are homework. In those cases, only vote for closure if one of the bronze tag badge holders, who are trusted to make the right decision, say that the question is scraped from a textbook. Notably, again lack of research in itself is not a close reason.

However, when one of our two only Socrates's is concerned about excessive closure, we have a problem. In fact, this was not realized just today. We ourselves had some concerns, expressed before on meta, and there were some fruitless efforts to come up with more objective ways of closing questions as homework. Well, buckle up. It's time for real action.

That is, the ones that ask for calculations, without any effort on behalf of the asker. Here's one such example. (Imgur mirror for <10k users.)

However, it's not obvious whether the typed out ones are homework. In those cases, only vote for closure if one of the bronze tag badge holders, who are trusted to make the right decision, say that the question is scraped from a textbook. Notably, again lack of research in itself is not a close reason.

Those are some of the accusations that tend to get thrown at close voters around the network I poke my head around. They were even thrown at us at least once. I don't know if those are the reasons you guys vote to close, but why I do is because I want the providers of that knowledge to stay. That's why the system of closing is designed in the first place, and what it's meant to be used for.

However, when one of our two only Socrates's is concerned about excessive closure, we have a problem. In fact, this was not realized just today. We ourselves had some concerns, expressed before on meta, and there were some fruitless efforts to come up with more objective ways of closing questions as homework. Well, buckle up. It's time for real action.

• It's worth explicitly mentioning that lack of research is no longer a valid close reason.

Those are some of the accusations that tend to get thrown at close voters around the network I poke my head around. They were even thrown at us at least once. I don't know if those are the reasons you guys vote to close, but why I do is because I want the providers of that knowledge to stay. That's why the system of closing is designed in the first place, and what it's meant to be used for.

However, when one of our two only Socrates's is concerned about excessive closure, we have a problem. In fact, this was not realized just today. We ourselves had some concerns, expressed before on meta, and there were some fruitless efforts to come up with more objective ways of closing questions as homework. Well, buckle up. It's time for real action.

• It's worth explicitly mentioning that lack of research is no longer a valid close reason.