Student Questions - Policy?

[dslippy]

I have been unable to find a policvy on students asking their study questions.
Do you have one?
Personally I am not against it on condition that the poster is quite open about it, and looks as is if they have at least put in some work to find an answer before posting.
Some will not want to waste time on such
Some will be against undermining the teaching process.

[R0b]

You can tell generally from the posts that the question they are asking might be a student type question. I don't think there is a policy on the forum specific to this but if I see them I do tend to ask the poster what they think the answer is or point them in the direction of what I think the topic relates to and avoid giving a direct answer.

There are both advantages and disadvantages to sharing an answer, either for the student's benefit who is really struggling to produce and answer or simply for the lazy person to get the answers and responses they need without doing much work themselves. Given that assignments these days are checked for plagiarism (for university at least) it would be difficult for them to simply copy and paste without amending the answers to a certain degree in order to avoid being flagged - that percentage of amendments to avoid a flag for similarity depends on the tool used.

I don't think we get a lot of student questions though I have seen some crop up at specific times of the year that aligns with deadline dates such as December/January and June/July/August

[atticus]

The sort of policy dslippy describes worked well in the old swarblaw forum where we were both members.