Not at all.

We are discussing technical issues. But we are not supplying pre-chewed solutions making use of the techniques we are discussing.

And we don't restrict ourselves based on petty and senseless forum rules, but because of school rules. If the school consider it illegal and punishes cheating with relegation, why should I ignore that view and serve solutions on a platter? Schools are not there to print nice certificates but to make students learn. How counter-productive is it if we short-circuits this learning process?


But isn't the truth that threads tends to have their own life whatever the OP is writing? If a debate enters a specific technical problem, a lot of information is normally written about it. It's just that most of the text are debating the problem from a general perspective instead of focusing on any turn-key solution explicitly matching the school assignment.


We already are. Start collect statistics, and you will see the number of threads where the OP is only visible in the first 20-30% of the thread, and the rest of the thread either contains spin-off discussions or specializations of the original problem. An OP that wanted to learn could stay in the thread and ask questions if something isn't understood just as anyone else can ask for clarifications. But the debate would still continue with - or without - more feedback from the OP.