That is one of my major pet peeves with SO. Moderators assuming you are asking a question for a school assignment. Most of the time I have to make my question sound like as general as possible with fake variables, so as not to expose proprietary information. So they may look like school assignment to the ignorant.
My favorite has always been me working on problems that have no practical application, but I'm working on them to gain understanding of how or why something works the way it does, only to get several "don't do that" replies
There are a ton of people asking questions who genuinely don't know why what they're asking to do is a bad idea. If you assume that they just weren't aware of the better way, you'll be right about 99% of the time. It's not a reflection on you, it's a reflection of the cluelessness of the general population. If you really just want to know about the internal workings of something, perhaps stating so up front would get some sympathy - but no guarantees.
> Moderators assuming you are asking a question for a school assignment
It's pretty obvious when that's the case. Ironically, using SO for work assignments is OK, but that's probably because the questions are more interesting, esoteric, or have longer term value than a question about while loops.
