Personally, if it's a no effort then I get irked. So I simply ignore the thread and offer no help. If it looks like they tried, then I usually will offer some advice. I don't think work being dictated by a teacher is that much different than a manager. I simply judge on the apparant effort. If you want to help then by all means help but if not, just ignore the post. I don't think we need to introduce any formalized approach to this or any other type of Perl related questions.