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Mar 4, 2022 at 21:01 comment added pat As someone who might have done this, I would appreciate some form of commentary in the comments to indicate undesirably giving away answers rather than blatant downvotes to the helping poster. I spent a lot of time helping a user with a final project, giving them an obvious advantage. However, it is not always easy to differentiate solving homework problem and assisting when the user shows they did some work and are struggling.
Mar 23, 2021 at 13:02 comment added Null Mod After thinking about this some more, one way to coordinate downvotes would perhaps be to create a chat room dedicated to homework questions, somewhat similar to Stack Overflow's SO Close Vote Reviewers or Math.SE's CURED. A group of dedicated users could link to undesirable homework answers to coordinate downvotes (you could also add a feed for all questions tagged [homework] to help close such questions and/or downvote answers, if necessary).
Mar 19, 2021 at 15:50 answer added Scott Seidman timeline score: 0
Mar 19, 2021 at 13:26 comment added Peter Smith There are, to me, two types of HW question, in general. There is the 'I want to know the answer to X' and my response is usually to comment something like 'what have you already done / tried' and then there is the type of question where someone really is having a problem that they cannot figure out, but they can show they have tried. In those, I will try to explain where they may have taken a misstep. For the first type, if no change is made within a reasonable time, I will vote to close. Where an answer was given I might comment that an answer is not appropriate.
Mar 18, 2021 at 17:37 comment added Voltage Spike Mod Just to differentiate, this post applies to answers and those who answer HW questions
Mar 18, 2021 at 17:27 answer added TonyM timeline score: 4
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Mar 14, 2021 at 0:04 comment added Marcus Müller Very, very related: homework close reason
Mar 11, 2021 at 21:18 answer added NullMod timeline score: 4
Mar 11, 2021 at 9:21 answer added Andy aka timeline score: 4
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