I'm not sure how I feel about this myself, so I figured I'd put it before the rest of you.
A lot of younger people come to this forum with the mistaken notion that we'll do their homework problems for them. However, the negative responses they often get leave them with a bad impression of the members of this forum, and the idea that this place can't be helpful to them at all. And I disagree with that. This is a great place to learn from other people and get a taste for scientific discussion, and I would hate to turn kids away from here unnecessarily.
I thought that it might help if there was a homework help forum, probably stuck at the top of the homepage somewhere, so it's easy for newcomers to see. We could keep a big ole sticky thread in there that says with capital letters READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST! In which we could explain what we will and will not do when it comes to homework help.
Examples - We will not do your research for you, but if you need tips on how to do research then we can point you in the right direction. If you've done your research and still have trouble understanding certain issues or concepts, you can come and discuss them with us. If you want critiques of your already written answers, you can ask us. Etc.
And, even for those complete newbies who simply don't get it and still post the unacceptable questions anyway, at least they will (hopefully) be localized in a single forum and not spread across the different forums.
What do you guys think?