Question

It seems people don't know the definition of a 'Direct Answer'.

Answer 1

A direct answer is any response where the Answerer does all the work for the Asker and gives the answer. The answerer MUST guide the asker to the answer; therefore there must be participation of the asker. This has been agreed on by the Moderators of this site, I am not making this up. No matter how much they explain it, the Asker can just take the answer without looking at the explanation.
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http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/5444f6ffe4b044d2f3c2a2a2

Read @amistre64 's points..they’re very good :P

Answer 2

You don't go to the direct answers, the direct answers come to you.

Answer 3

Sometimes people get frustrated....but still explain the problem then after multiple tries give the answer

Answer 4

It's still breaking the rules

Answer 5

Not really. The rules state not to devalue the learning process. Once a person gets to a high level of frustration, the learning process is being devalued. Then the best thing to do can be to find out why they were not able to get the answer and work on that. Now, if they are not willing to do that part, then perhaps it is better to just not help them in the future because it is an indication they are here for answers only.

Answer 6

The asker has partial fault for even accepting the DA. If it was important to them they would ask for evidence or an explanation. @iGreen

Answer 7

Here are some things in the rules:

Give Help, Not Answers - I will encourage and guide those needing help, and not just give them an answer

Note the word just.

OpenStudy values the Learning process - not the ‘Give you an answer’ process
\(\bullet \) Don’t post only answers - guide the asker to a solution.

Note the word guide.

And here, well, it basically says to give them an answer, but with certain limits:

Don't devalue the question/answer process!
\(\bullet\) Don't provide someone with just the answer - explain the process, and help guide them through understanding the problem.
\(\bullet \) Don't just provide the answer to a problem when someone else is in the middle of helping! But if you want to help, by all means, join in!


If you look at a lot of documents on proper tutoring tactics it talks about frustration and mistakes. There is value in when a person breaks through to understanding. Doing the work leads to this. However, there is also when the frustration and mistakes pile up too much and you need to show the person things.

The best thing, if you can manage it, is to work with them at every step. Complement every good action. Don't be critical of mistakes, just try to find more creative ways to point them out or use examples to nudge the person on the process, and work with them until they are done and have succeeded.

Answer 8

^^^^^^

Answer 9

\(\color{blue}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @Joel_the_boss
The asker has partial fault for even accepting the DA. If it was important to them they would ask for evidence or an explanation. @iGreen
\(\color{blue}{\text{End of Quote}}\)

Yep, some of them only want direct answers.

Answer 10

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/54eddc10e4b06b22807d50af

A very recent example of my claim. His fault for taking the answer, and he got it wrong. @e.mccormick @iGreen