Questions tagged [homework]
The homework tag has no usage guidance.
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Are we a bit overzealous with closing questions as homework?
As of this writing, this question has three close votes. As what? Of course as homework.
I'm also seeing myself leaving questions open more often in the Reopen queue, and I'm one of the perpetrators ...
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Do we really need [homework]? [Part 3]
While we're on the topic of getting rid of tags, I would like to bring this up as a first step towards making a new closure policy.
This has actually been discussed before. See: (1) Should we have a ...
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Let low rep users answer homework questions?
Could we let low rep users (presumably budding young chemists...) answer homework questions? If they can teach, then they are reinforcing their knowledge.
Let's say that after 500 reputation a user ...
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How to handle "Am I right?" homework questions [duplicate]
The procedure to deal with homework questions with no effort is pretty well established around here: vote to close.
However, what about questions where the problem is laid out and then answered ...
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How to handle users giving away answers to homework questions
I came across this question, where a user is clearly asking for help on their homework and hasn't shown effort on the problem - just stating they don't understand it.
Below the question is a comment ...
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Is it a bad idea to have an edit only be the addition of the homework tag?
Often when cruising the latest questions or working through the review queue, I'll make an edit that only adds homework.
I see two problems, the first very minor, the second potentially insidious.
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Policy on AMIRITE questions
Intro
Consider two likely scenarios:
Q: How many grams of $\ce{O2}$ are there in one mole of oxygen gas?
I know that O is 16, so it should be 16 grams, AMIRITE? Please halp ugrant kthxbye
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Feedback on The Experiment
The experiment is over. Here are the stats, beautifully crafted with heavy MathJax with stats topping$^1$.
Here's my take. Nothing really changed where we worried about change. You can play with this ...
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Why is this homework question still closed?
The question What mass of water is present as a liquid when equilibrium is established? clearly is a homework question. The homework tag has been added to the question within two minutes after it was ...
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Let's not close questions as homework except for blatantly obvious cases (at least for a while)
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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....
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The policy of excessively closing questions
Nowadays I find more and more of my questions being closed and I don't understand why. I've got the impression that acquiring knowledge isn't the priority here anymore, but rather following some ...
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Suggesting a chemistry homework site
I think there a should be separate site for homework, where students can show their efforts and post their questions.
Many questions of that type are closed here for unnecessary reasons.
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Let's decide on what we should close as homework
The homework close reason is a thing I click on often these days.
Recently, we're close-voting questions as homework that are from a broad range of scope. Unlike what's being seen in that screenshot, ...
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Homework questions which asks for alternate solution
I am asking if I can post some homework questions which asks for alternate solutions.
Why do I need alternate solution?
It's because the solution I have might be too long or I might be wondering ...
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What *is* a 'homework question'?
This is going to be a bit of a long post, please bear with me. (And no TL;DR's ಠ_ಠ)
A decaffeinating story
Once upon a meta post, a legend from the realm of Manly soil rose and said: Let's ...
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