<p>I feel there usually <em>ought</em> to be more to say. If you ask someone to check your working you want to increase your confidence that you've got the right answer by having them agree with you; but you also want to to learn new ways to check similar problems&mdash;quick checks to show your results are roughly what they should be, an intuitive explanation of the answer, proofs or references for methods that you used just because they seemed reasonable, how to arrive at the same results by a different method, the making explicit of assumptions you'd made implicitly, &amp;c. And your confidence increases more when they give such reasons for agreement than when they just say "looks all right"&mdash;which meshes nicely with our goal of providing not over-short answers that may be useful to more than one person.</p>

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  <li>do we tolerate "yes" answers to these questions?</li>
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<p>I think not, for the same reasons we don't tolerate answers like "Use a t-test" or "Read this blog post". They should be comments, even if they appear to satisfy the OP.</p>

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  <li>do we try harder to push OPs to ask questions that have longer-than-one-line answers?</li>
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<p>I think so; as I commented, there's often going to be something in particular they're unsure about. But we don't want to make people jump through hoops &amp; insist on their editing their questions just because the <em>wording</em> allows "yes" as a potential answer. Wouldn't it be a little picky to insist on changing "Is this the correct way [&hellip;] ?" in <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/171372/17230">Changing Sigma Limits for Proof</a> ?</p>

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  <li>do we come up with a different line altogether, anything from closing them to putting up with having a large set of questions that can't be properly answered</li>
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<p>I think we should place questions equivalent to a big "code dump" on hold, as good answers would be impractically broad.</p>

<p>[<a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/171054/17230">https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/171054/17230</a> is one where the OP's approach is perhaps acceptable to whoever's marking their homework, &amp; where perhaps they just hope someone will check the basic calculations. Nonetheless they'd surely benefit from being prompted to at least consider&mdash;it's a self-study question, so they shouldn't simply be told&mdash;under what conditions it'll be good enough for government work.]</p>
