I think that when you are not interested in certain kind of solution you should explain why, especially if the solution that you don't want is the most natural for most people. A common problem is that the poster has a prejudice that a given solution cannot work when it actually works.

For example, people very often say that they want to do something without using CPAN modules. When questioned they usually say that it is because they don't have root access and can't install them. That is absurd! Not only are there ways of installing modules in directories that you can access, but even the worst case scenario, if you are able to copy and paste code from a perlmonks.org node, you can also copy it from CPAN (of course, I'd recomment trying to install it properly first). (Licensing issues may be more complicated, though.)

The same may also apply to databases. If you want to write hundreds of lines of code to do something that you could do with a few lines and a free database, I'll be more motivated to reply if at least you say why you don't want a database. Even if it's just because it was a homework problem that stated "do this without using a database".