Timeline for Gaps to Fill Without a 'Homework' Close Reason -- Overview
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| Jul 11, 2019 at 16:27 | comment | added | Karsten Mod | @GaurangTandon I am not trying to redefine the policy. I'm saying the the close reason should come with a prompt giving guidance how to edit the question. If we have multiple close reasons (unclear, too broad, did not ask your own question, lacks context), the reason would show the key flaw, and the prompt would give directions on how to fix it. | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 17:39 | history | edited | KarstenMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2019 at 17:34 | history | edited | KarstenMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2019 at 2:21 | comment | added | Gaurang Tandon | Ok, I understand, but I'm still not understanding how this would fix what the current VTC couldn't. Even the current policy focused on the lines "making sure you tell us how this question came up, how you tried to answer it, and where you need help" and "the amount of research...expected from the OP", so the one you suggest is not really different. | |
| Jun 9, 2019 at 21:52 | comment | added | Karsten Mod | @GaurangTandon "Your two messages are very overlapping": Yes, because both kinds of posts show low effort. But in one case, the OP is posting someone else's question (sometimes with answer), and in the other case the OP has their own question. What is common is that it does not make sense to answer it as posted, so in some ways what the OP has to do for questions that are closed as "not clear" or "homework" is to provide more information. | |
| Jun 9, 2019 at 21:47 | comment | added | Karsten Mod | @GaurangTandon "Industry person working with chemicals having a pH calc": We can leave it open, and someone will answer it. Unless it is a duplicate, which is fine for that person as well, they will be able to figure it out from the answer to the duplicate. | |
| Jun 9, 2019 at 17:28 | comment | added | Gaurang Tandon | Moreover, I do not see what is different in the FAQ from your VTC reasons. Also, your two messages are very overlapping. Point 1 states that "...how you tried to work..". But notice that trying to work through the problem will require reading up books, references, and also "how you tried to answer it, and where you need help", which is your direction in point 2. What I mean to say is that trying to satisfy (2) (did not do your homework...) will always satisfy (1) (did not ask a question), so I don't see a distinction here. | |
| Jun 9, 2019 at 17:22 | comment | added | Gaurang Tandon | Nice well laid out post..but regarding (1) We need to clearly define what are homework exercises and what aren't. A high-school pH calculation is almost certainly a homework, but an industry person working with chemicals having a pH calc isn't probably homework. I think it is easy to identify which one is what given the tone of the question, but how do we deal with the second case? | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 13:41 | history | edited | KarstenMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2019 at 12:05 | history | answered | KarstenMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |