I have only just come to provide answers on this site the past month or so, and I completely agree that in most cases direct and clear answers are the best.
However, this site is used by a lot of students who are looking for help with homework, and by help I mean ANSWERS.
Often they are not concerned with how the answer is achieved and they are more concerned with the answer itself, I certainly know that was the case with me at one point in my life.
I think that the best policy, when the question looks like a standard homework question is to give pointers to make the asker think about what the answer is, rather than giving them a string of words to copy down. That doesn't help their progression in the slightest.
I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say, a lot of student underestimate the value of learning.
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