Doesn't that rather defeat the point of what is going on here. It seems to me that a lot of what we do beyond sharing and learning from eachother is to answer the questions of the masses. If we restrict to only registered monks, I find it hard to believe that so many people will ask, and with that we become an almost closed community.

Having said that, it may not be the case that Anonymous Monk has not asked that many questions. Does anyone have stats?

What would be the benefit of knowing someone's email address? I maintain the point that the few people that send us their homework are going to do it from home.

At the end of the day, I think that we as individuals are best qualified to judge what we should answer. And ultimately, if someone has a question associated with their homework, there's no reason we should not help. OK, if people are to expect us to write an entire project, then that's a bit rude, but helping people out who are at school is no different to helping people at work.

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Brother Marvell

In reply to Re: Re: Help for the homework problem? by marvell
in thread Help for the homework problem? by Albannach

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