<p><strong>When</strong> this site takes off, we will get a number of homework questions that can be spotted a mile off. Should we</p>

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<li>Just down vote them and not answer them.</li>
<li>Provide helpful hints</li>
<li>Make a note in the FAQ and point them to it?</li>
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<p>I think that we will get more homework questions than SO (say), just because statistics is taught to a wide variety of people - biologists, medics, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians. However, we don't want to appear rude and put off future contributors.</p>

<p>Personally, I would go for a combination of all three options.</p>
