user27357: It seems like the policy is to close posts as 'homework' if they are simple and don't show much effort. I'm fine with closing low-effort posts, but I think it's unnecessarily broad and potentially confusing and frustrating to tell people off for asking 'homework' questions when they aren't homework. Other than anything else, it's just incorrect.
Would it not be better to mark them as 'low effort' or 'no prior research for a simple question' or something along those lines?

user43353: I understand the word homework is just a colloquialism for 'do the work yourself first' but it suffers from ambiguity and cannot be used in a generalizable sense without protest. Homework is ill-defined and confusing as a judgment call. And it's a close reason that is often revisited in discussion (this compilation from 7 years ago...).
For this reason I agree with OP and AliceD above, let's rewrite this already. I'd happily compile every suggestion or curate adjustments or track suggestions and arguments for/against each so we can simply vote on it.
I hope to provoke some disagreement with the following, but I trust there won't be any:

Most of us are in favor of answering homework questions to help the questioner.
Most think that disallowing or discouraging well-posed homework questions is silly.
Most understand that the intended goal is closing low-effort questions.
We agree question effort is entirely perpendicular to whether they constitute homework or not.
We agree that question effort is judged subjectively, but so are judgments of "insufficient detail" or "insufficient focus", which are acceptable and existing close reasons.

With those in mind, I propose the following close reason:

Question posed with insufficient effort. The questioner must show
background research and motivate why the answer remains unclear to them
after attempting to understand it.

Hot or not? Let's polish it or suggest alternatives to get there once and for all. Many won't believe it possible. But I believe. We can do it, together.

user9943: I would strongly vote for rewriting the close reason. This issue has been raised a lot of times and no one seems to push a solution through. The requirement for prior research effort is important. Over at Psych&Neurosci we have the following close reason introduced not too long ago, also after quite some deliberation:

This question is not framed in psychology or neuroscience. It is based
on assumptions which are not made explicit, are not well-motivated
(e.g., referenced), or are not held to be true within any of the
research fields on-topic here. For more information, see ["]Why was my
question closed as “not framed in psychology or neuroscience”?.

I wouldn't mind pursuing this endeavor once we reach an agreement [again...]

27357: <p>It seems like the policy is to close posts as 'homework' if they are simple and don't show much effort. I'm fine with closing low-effort posts, but I think it's unnecessarily broad and potentially confusing and frustrating to tell people off for asking 'homework' questions when they aren't homework. Other than anything else, it's just incorrect.</p>
<p>Would it not be better to mark them as 'low effort' or 'no prior research for a simple question' or something along those lines?</p>
 43353: <p>I understand the word <em>homework</em> is just a colloquialism for 'do the work yourself first' but it suffers from ambiguity and cannot be used in a generalizable sense without protest. <em>Homework</em> is ill-defined and confusing as a judgment call. And it's a close reason that is often revisited in discussion (<a href="https://biology.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1818/rethinking-the-homework-close-reason">this compilation from 7 years ago...</a>).</p>
<p>For this reason I agree with OP and AliceD above, let's rewrite this already. I'd happily compile every suggestion or curate adjustments or track suggestions and arguments for/against each so we can simply vote on it.</p>
<p>I hope to provoke some disagreement with the following, but I trust there won't be any:</p>
<ul>
<li>Most of us are in favor of answering homework questions to help the questioner.</li>
<li>Most think that disallowing or discouraging well-posed homework questions is silly.</li>
<li>Most understand that the intended goal is closing low-<strong>effort</strong> questions.</li>
<li>We agree question <strong>effort</strong> is entirely perpendicular to whether they constitute homework or not.</li>
<li>We agree that question <strong>effort</strong> is judged subjectively, but so are judgments of &quot;insufficient detail&quot; or &quot;insufficient focus&quot;, which are acceptable and existing close reasons.</li>
</ul>
<p>With those in mind, I propose the following close reason:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Question posed with insufficient effort.</strong> The questioner must show
background research and motivate why the answer remains unclear to them
after attempting to understand it.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Hot or not? Let's polish it or suggest alternatives to get there once and for all. Many won't believe it possible. But I believe. We can do it, together.</p>
 9943: <p>I would strongly vote for rewriting the close reason. This issue has been raised a lot of times and no one seems to push a solution through. The requirement for prior research effort is important. Over at Psych&amp;Neurosci we have the following close reason introduced not too long ago, also after quite some deliberation:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This question is not framed in psychology or neuroscience. It is based
on assumptions which are not made explicit, are not well-motivated
(e.g., referenced), or are not held to be true within any of the
research fields on-topic here. For more information, see [&quot;]<a href="https://psychology.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2277/21">Why was my
question closed as “not framed in psychology or neuroscience</a>”?.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I wouldn't mind pursuing this endeavor once we reach an agreement [again...]</p>
