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Would Fluther get off the "content farm" listing faster if we allowed homework questions? (Please see all details)

Asked by Dog (25152points) January 28th, 2012

We allow any question no matter how silly it might sound out of respect to the asking party. It was nice when we began allowing questions that were easy to Google but we are now deemed a “content farm” by Google. But unfortunately, when a question is asked that is remotely academic, the user is now often accused of being a homework cheat and flags fly as well as harsh comments.

Regardless of whether the question is indeed homework, the user often leaves due to a hostile environment.

Why not respect users of these questions too?
** I am thinking that such questions would certainly index higher in the Google ranking. **

Why not allow the questions but be polite and flag/remove direct answers?After all- it is in our guidelines that we do not give direct answers to homework questions.

Why not gently guide the user who asks for a direct answers that “We cannot tell you the exact answer but perhaps they should check out (insert resource)

Could it really hurt to encourage more students to seek a gentle nudge when we are scraping the spammer depths as a web site?

Am I totally off in my thinking here?
We have amazing minds here. Brilliant people and scholars. Surely we can help without snark and can give positive and gentle hints for the most obvious homework questions?

What do you all think?
Would Fluther possibly turn a profit and secure itself with such questions bringing in future scholars and those who are just pain curious?

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