Community opinion on script-begging in Answers?

Periodically I see questions in Answers that come down to “can someone write my game for me?” These range from “Can someone write me an entire script to do X” where X is a non-trivial function, to “Can someone convert this code I downloaded blindly from the internet to Unity for me.”

In most other programming communities I have been involved in (Stack Overflow, Javagaming.org,etc) these sorts of things have been frowned upon with a “write your own game” attitude. Note that this is very different from specific questions about “why do I get this error” or “where do i find this functionality” which show that the asker is at least trying to learn how to do it themselves.

I personally think this sort of thing only decrease the over-all signal to noise in the discussion as they teach the asker nothing except how to beg other people to do their work for them. But I am curious if there is an either official or unofficial policy about such things in Answers.

(Its different to my mind in forums. If you want to honestly ask for collaboration or if someone has already done something and would like to share it in the forums, thats another matter. To my mind thats a much more appropriate place then a teaching/learning space.)

I think that most of the time they are redirected to the commercial and collaboration threads. If they don’t wan’t to do it themselves, they should hire someone.

If I see any requests for scripts, then I’ll delete the post, or more usually, reject the question from the moderation queue.

Thanks. I didn’t want to start rejecting them from queue or even begin too corrective til I knew the societal standard.

I appreciate much the clarification.