A Forum is made to help others and here it is violating the basic purpose itself.
And yet many hundreds of people have found it useful over the years. Why do you tihnk that is?
So, the factual answer to your question, such as it is, is: This forum is useful, for those who know how to use it correctly.
BTW: Complaints about this MB go in ABTM forum. You might find this MB to be more useful if you read the rules before posting. Just some friendly advice.
He means this thread
It was closed because the mods thought you are a student asking people to do your homework for you.
Asking a question about work is different. Send a PM to the General Questions mods and explain. If they believe you, they’ll re-open the thread.
He describes himself as a masters student.
That said, I’d be mildly interested in a layman’s explanation of what the hell the OP’s original question in the other thread even means.
Well, you can’t ask RGNITKKR, that’s for sure.
I dunno, as a math major (most of which I don’t remember anymore) it sounded a lot like what we did when I was an undergrad. Linear Algebra maybe.
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Moving thread from General Questions to About This Message Board.
perhaps some tech savvy person could invent a digital representation of tarring and feathering someone. this way there would be more options available than just snarky remarks when someone asks a question you don’t like.
Yet somehow we’ve managed to be around for 15 years or so.
In the original thread the OP said:
So see, it’s not home work, it’s a project for school. He’s working on it in his dorm room, not at home.
Here’s the rule that engineer comp geek quoted in his ruling:
I want to point out that all of that happens constantly on this board. I understand the desire to limit/reduce the amount of homework questions. But the rest of those get passes nearly every single time they come up. And they’re usually pretty popular threads, so the community apparently doesn’t have a problem with it.
I suggest boiling the rule down a bit to just single-out homework requests.
From the original thread(and the OP himself)
Am I alone in thinking that when a student needs answers to complete a project, that counts as “homework”?
Please note that I didn’t express any disagreement with the thread closure, or suggest that there was anything wrong with c_e_g’s ruling. Just that the rule itself is overly broad, at least in terms of how it’s enforced on a day-to-day basis in regard to the “input for your article, paper, or other off-board project” portion of the rule.
But thanks for playing.
Perhaps if you provided an example(much like I did) of the point you are making it would help.
And let me know when it’s my turn to play again.
People start threads asking for information that would clarify something in a book they’re writing, or they’re looking for opinions on the historical accuracy of a setting, etc. pretty routinely.
Additionally, “off-board project” seems pretty vague.
Yep, they sure do.
Now how about a link showing there is an ongoing problem of people responding to those posts with variations of “No homework!”?
I honestly can’t tell if you really don’t get what Munch is saying or if you’re doing this on purpose.
ETA, he’s suggesting the rule should be backed off to just ‘no homework’. FTR, I never knew there was more to that rule then just ‘no homework’.
Munch is suggesting a solution to a problem, and I would like to know if the problem exists in the first place.
Thank you for acknowledging what I think most people were capable of allowing as a given in the first place.
I didn’t suggest there was one. Good lord - go take a nap. When people post “help me with my homework” threads, mods tend to close them pretty consistently. When people post “help me with my project” threads, they aren’t closed with much consistency, if at all. So why not just take that clause out of the rule?