Questions tagged [please-do-this-for-me]
A solution is requested for a problem that shows no evidence of prior effort.
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What is a "do it for me" question?
There is a huge number of questions using the term "do it for me" question (such as [1], [2], [3] and many more), and I would like to understand what the term means. The most precise definition I have ...
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Reasons for closing questions: too little effort
This is, in a certain way, a reiteration of Henri Menke's question/request "Please add more off-topic close reasons". At the moment of writing this, this question has one highly voted answer, which ...
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Explicitly indicate the reasons why answering a just-do-it-for-me question
I already said that answering just-do-it-for-me questions gives a wrong signal.
Moreover, it makes this site become a just-do-it-for-me(-for-free) service.
Indeed, it leads to comments like this ...
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Should we avoid "gimme the codez" questions? [duplicate]
At Stackoverflow and other coding-related sides, it is kept a best practice to avoid asking and/or answering questions which simply ask to get the code for a particular (often oddly specific) scenario....
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How do I draw this.....?
I know this question has been raised before at policy on "how do I draw this?" questions. I know a lot of us are annoyed by these questions. But I'm not so sure, as in the linked discussion, that ...
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Notifying the user when they are about to post a "give me the codez"-question
We get questions like this all the time, where someone wants us to draw something for them in TikZ or some other graphics package, without providing a minimal working example.
I'm wondering whether ...
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Our Do-it-for-me and Draw-it-for-me comments don't reflect our hypocrisy. Can they be improved?
Yes, we don't like people pasting something and asking how can I do this? or if it is TikZ, PSTricks, Asymptote case how can I-draw this? without even making a template of a TeX document, let alone ...
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(How much) should we wait for a MWE from the OP?
I tried to make the question as concise as possible. I apologize if it appears misleading after reading further on and invite you to find a better 'title'.
And now to the core of the problem: AFAIK, ...
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policy on "how do I draw this?" questions
There are several, I think unnecessary, questions of the form "How can I draw this?" or "How can I draw this in TikZ?"
These add nothing to the site really. Sometimes there is some feature of the ...
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