Homework Help Subforum

[FRO]

I've noticed an increased number of threads asking for homework help.

Why not create a subforum, perhaps in CT, specifically designed for those who need answers or love to answer them?

[devonin]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

Any threads created in CT asking for -help- with homework will be moved to chit-chat.

Any threads created in CT asking for -answers- to homework will be deleted.

If a sticky for it would go anywhere it should go in Chit-chat, but if I were the admin folk, I'd be cautious making an official place for kids to have other people do their schoolwork for them.

[chunky_cheese]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

Equations are references to sites containing the info only?

Could be helpful, but I think this thread should pertain to all areas of the knowledge absorbing and such.

[IAAW]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

I think this would be a good addition; there are plenty of people who ask help with their homework. I'd "probably" suggest this forum going under Critical Thinking, but it "might" be better if it was in Literature. Or, it could just be a new forum, rather than a new subforum.

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

most people that ask for help just want answers and not help. this has been brought up every now and then for years... and we really don't condone people asking for "help" on homework on the site, because all it is is someone posting a question or two, then older members giving them the answer.

[MrRubix]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

There is nothing wrong with asking for help as long as you aren't just asking for an answer out of laziness. It would be better to be confused about a concept, asking for clarification, as opposed to just wanting something done for you.


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[devonin]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

Yeah, but since I'm in CT all the time and a lot of the homework threads end up in CT, I can tell you from experience, the vast majority are not looking for teaching assistance to help them understand a concept. They are looking for the answers to the questions they have to finish for school the next day.

[Tokzic]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

Or, if you need help with homework, you could use a resource that isn't an Internet forum.

Bad idea. No assignment requires you to go on forums and get responses there. Usually it's just more convenient to (i.e. lazier). Making a subforum will encourage it.

[Windscarredfaith]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

Definitely not a subforum. I definitely think that people would just use it to get free answers. (I am guilty of this. xD) And as Tokzic said, it will encourage it. However, threads asking for help on a particular problem should be allowed. But this doesn't happen often enough to have its own section, so having it in Chit Chat is fine.

[gabgabo]

Re: Homework Help Subforum

We could create one specific thread that would be the homework help asking thread.