Too many - in my opinion for hobbyists fairly reasonable - questions are downvoted for no reason.
Then your opinion is obviously not that of the downvoters, and not in sync with the norms here.
Quality is very important, and is ultimately what keeps the experts here, which keeps this a good place to ask questions. Allowing low quality questions to persist hurts the site. Having a slightly lower question volume by discarding low quality questions does no harm since the desirable questions are still there.
People here seem to invest most of their time in commenting the initial question and whether it should be closed or not instead of answering it.
Again, quality is important, see above. To dispense with low quality questions with least harm to the site, they must not be answered. If someone writes a low quality question and gets the desired result, they'll be back doing the same thing again. Even worse, others will see that it works, so they'll be doing the same thing too.
On SE:EE the words "school" or "assignment" seem to be synonyms for "please close my question".
When school assignments are just dumped on us, then yes, absolutely!
people don't join this website to get a moral sermon given
But here, as like most other places in life, they may get one when exhibiting a lazy, entitled, or otherwise bad attitude.
He doesn't even give related literature...
Not his job.
"No-one here's going to solve this for you."
Right, they won't, or at least shouldn't. Pay attention to what "this" is referring to, which is handing you a solution to a homework problem.
We can help with homework here, but we require you to:
- Show that you've put some effort into solving the problem.
- Explain what specific aspect you are stuck on.
- Generally exhibit a attitude of wanting to learn and understand.
Those just looking for the answer need not apply.
Feel free to downvote this feedback.
Done.
Your complaint seems to be about the question "Circuit analyse [on hold]". To answer the question you really should have asked, this is a crappy question because:
- It shows sloppiness right in the title! That's the first thing everyone sees. If the OP doesn't even care enough to get that right, then there is a good chance that any effort spent trying to teach him would be wasted. Lack of attention to details basically says "Eh, you lot don't matter, so I can throw whatever slop at you and expect you to deal with it, my servants!". That's a really dumb thing to say to volunteers who you are asking for a favor.
- Couldn't even bother to capitalize the first word of the first sentence. I remember starting to get a screw this attitude about here. I would have overlooked the wrong word in the title if the rest of the question at least showed effort to be respectful. No matter how little anyone knows about English, there is no excuse for not capitalizing the first word of sentences. It's a universal rule, and common to many languages.
- The capitalization is exceedingly sloppy in other places. Why is "BY" capitalized, but then "r6" not? This make no sense. It's not only sloppy, but you'd actually have to go out of your way to mess this up. In any case, this should have been immediately obvious upon proofreading before submitting the post. Either the OP was too lazy to bother checking what he wrote, or to arrogant to care whether it was a mess or not. Either way, he's thumbing his nose at all the volunteers here.
- There is no period at the end of the sentence. This guy is really just dumping crap on us, and clearly has no respect for the site nor those he is seeking a favor from. At this point I had a serious screw this attitude towards this question.
- The only thing it asks is whether I can do something. How is that relevant? It's not about electrical engineering at all.
Perhaps the OP meant "Is it possible to derive the loop currents from ...", or maybe "Please show me how to derive the ...".
If all else had been respectful, neat, and showing attention to detail, I might have inferred one of the two alternate questions and given some slack. However, given the gross disrespect the OP had already exhibited towards me, I used his sloppiness against him to get the question closed expediently. I also downvoted for the disrespect and sloppiness.
Despite the above, I still explained one reason for closing, which is that we don't just hand you complete solutions to homework problems here.
The OP then came back with some snippy comments, totally sealing his fate. FakeMoustache even then still tried to explain what was wrong, but the OP came back with some irrelevant and laughable statement about watching videos. That's when he got the "sermon", which was actually quite restrained. At this point I was thinking of responses that started with "Look, asshole...", but we're not allowed to say that here, so I didn't.
