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Q&A Codidact is a Q&A platform or a teaching community?

The following is an excerpt from this community staff's answer: I definitely didn't thought of the CoC-version of "Not Constructive" when I added the "Not Constructive"-close reason. The intention...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Canina‭

#1: Initial revision by user avatar MathPhysics‭ · 2020-09-27T14:26:09Z (about 4 years ago)
Codidact is a Q&A platform or a teaching community?
The following is an excerpt from [this community staff's answer](https://meta.codidact.com/a/278181/278195):

> I definitely didn't thought of the CoC-version of "Not Constructive" when I added the "Not Constructive"-close reason. The intention was to catch posts, which aren't helpful to anyone (What's 1+1? rather than How to add two numbers?), because answers to them will not teach the asker something new and the answerers won't really learn something new or exciting and the answers are not helpful to other visitors because they are only applicable in the specific use case of the asker.

I conclude from the above quote that some Codidact policy does not allow users to post questions which cannot have any *exciting* or *enlightening* answer. Is Codidact a Q&A platform or a *teaching community*?! (I personally dislike the problem statement questions in which the questioners *only* want to know the final answer. I do not want to argue against such a policy in this post; however, it is worth noting that such a policy has not been successful on some communities such as Math.SE)

However, in my opinion, such a kind of policies should not be considered as a default for each community; any specific community can determine the required policies by itself.