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by gunapologist99 978 days ago
> While closing random questions as duplicates of similar but different question is obnoxious, downvoting "do my homework for me" questions is very useful.

In what way? Who really cares if it's homework or a newbie question? Are you such an expert in everything that you never ask newbie questions?

This arrogant attitude is toxic, spreads quickly, and poisons far too many communities. I'm grateful to dang et al that HN hasn't become like this.

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As I said elsewhere:

Just ignoring the newbie questions is best, unless you want to answer honestly.

On the r/jazz and r/classicalmusic, almost every day there's some question like "I'm just getting into <genre>. What are some top albums/artists I should listen to?"

Someone does answer those questions. Props to those saintly people.

> Who really cares if it's homework or a newbie question?

Answering "do my homework for me" is helping cheaters.