Timeline for Replacing the homework policy 1: what existing questions should be on/off topic?
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| Apr 27, 2016 at 19:21 | comment | added | sammy gerbil | Clearly a "spot the (possible) error in my calculation" type of question. Better for the questioner to sleep on it and find his own mistake later (eg when his teacher marks it) than someone else spend time looking for an error which might not be there. It is doubtful that anyone other than the questioner can benefit from the answer. 'Off-topic' in my view. | |
| Apr 12, 2016 at 6:09 | comment | added | David Z Mod | I am a little confused about why people want this to be off topic. Our proposal for the new policy focuses on outsourcing tedious calculations, and I find it difficult to see how this question is doing that. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 11:10 | comment | added | David Z Mod | @AnubhavGoel That's no different. I'm strongly opposed to that as well. The entire point of closing a question is that it shouldn't be answered until it gets edited and improved. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 10:50 | comment | added | Anubhav Goel | Then, we can answer it and then close it. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 9:42 | comment | added | David Z Mod | @AnubhavGoel I'm strongly opposed to that. If the poster asks what they've done wrong, and we tell them what they've done wrong, we should do so as an answer, not as a comment. | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 4:50 | comment | added | Anubhav Goel | I think OP should get a comment on what's wrong in solution and then closed as off-topic. | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 9:02 | history | answered | David ZMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |