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11 questions linked to/from Should I add the self-study tag to a question that is copy-pasted from a book?
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How should we deal with obvious homework questions
When this site takes off, we will get a number of homework questions that can be spotted a mile off. Should we
Just down vote them and not answer them.
Provide helpful hints
Make a note in the FAQ ...
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Dealing with “do my professional work for me” questions?
There has been some discussion on CV Meta of how to deal with homework questions and also job-related questions. Either can be unreasonable in certain cases, but the latter really annoy me, since they ...
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Are we closing questions too fast?
It seems to me that we have been closing more and more questions, and that we are moving them into the close votes review queue very quickly. This seems to have evolved naturally, but I wonder if we ...
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How best to use the review queue?
For the past couple of months I've had access to the review queue and haven't really got to grips with it yet. I find the design rather unintuitive and clunky - when looking at a post in the review ...
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What is the exact meaning of the [self-study] tag? Should we consider renaming it?
Our self-study tag is defined as:
A routine question from a textbook, course, or test used for a class or self-study. This community's policy is to "provide helpful hints" for self-study questions....
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Should the homework tag be deprecated?
Apparently the use of the homework tag was deprecated on SO. This is actually mentioned in the same meta that our FAQ points to in describing how to ask/answer homework questions. However, elsewhere ...
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Should we tag questions that smell like homework?
This is related to, but not a duplicate of, How should we deal with obvious homework questions
Homework questions have certain characteristics - vague, sample data, inclusion of instructions meant ...
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How specifically should we “provide hints” to self-study questions?
We get quite a number of self-study questions, and one common comment says that
We'll provide hints to help you get unstuck.
So... how specifically should we provide these hints? Should we write ...
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Is it okay to add the [self-study] tag through an edit instead of asking OP to do it?
I just (attempted to) reject an edit to include the "self-study" tag in a question, because the editor was "pretty certain that this is a self-study/homework question". "Self-study" is I think the ...
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If rejecting an edit that adds the [self-study] tag, what reason should be given?
After the discussion in Should I add the self-study tag to a question that is copy-pasted from a book? it seems the status quo is to not add the self-study tag without the author consent.
I'm facing ...
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Can we resolve the lack of consensus about editors adding the self-study tag?
I recently looked over my list of reviews for 'suggested edits'. I found a fair number of cases where the majority vote was to approve the addition of the self-study...