Timeline for Closing Homework with no attempt as Off-Topic
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| Apr 1, 2020 at 14:04 | comment | added | W5VO | @MarcusMüller If I remember correctly, you could get an additional close reason if you asked SE really nicely (and showed that you really needed a 4th instead of revising your existing 3). | |
| Apr 1, 2020 at 13:51 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | @W5VO yes, it's a custom off-topic close reason. You're right, | |
| Apr 1, 2020 at 13:39 | comment | added | W5VO | @MarcusMüller I haven't been keeping up with the close reasons or changes. I'm not a member of signals.SE, so I don't know anything about their homework close reason. Is it one of the custom off-topic close reasons, or something else? Either way you'd probably be better served by tracking down a moderator or starting a new meta.EE question about getting the new homework close reason. | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 11:59 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | and it's good for the askers, because it clearly says "hey, would be on-topic if you...", without the readers having to leave loads of comments. I very much prefer this to "too broad" and the new, now not-matching "needs more focus" close reason. | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 11:57 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | The "Too Broad" close reason has been substantially reworded, and honestly, it's not gotten better. Especially, it now, when applied to homework, reads more like "copy and paste more of the textbook", than what it should tell OP: Please tell us what you've done and considered, and where you're stuck. I don't know whether it's a reaction, but signals.SE recently got a "homework with no sufficient attempt" close reason, and it's been very good for the community; it's good for the readers, because there's a clear consensus on how to deal with these questions, | |
| Mar 2, 2016 at 20:07 | comment | added | W5VO Mod | @DmitryGrigoryev The "student" thinks all they need to know is the answer, but practically they need to be able to solve the problem. It's "Too Broad" because I don't want to solve the whole problem, or "Unclear" because they didn't specify which parts were giving them issues. | |
| Mar 2, 2016 at 14:14 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @PeterJ Such questions are often phrased as "find the voltage across R1". How on earth is this "broad"? (or "unclear" for that matter) | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 10:29 | comment | added | PeterJ | @Olin I think too broad often covers it - when there's no indication of effort you don't know what the OP knows. Imagine how long it would take to explain a simple analysis question to someone (even if generally intelligent) if they didn't have a concept of voltage or that squiggly lines were resistors. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 14:22 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | None of them really fit bad homework questions well. I guess we'll just click on the nearest handy close reason and move on. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 4:38 | history | answered | W5VOMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |