Quote Originally Posted by userxbw
helping someone, or just giving that person a solution to their problem as long as one learns that is all that matters.
It is not wise to become a homework solution service, and that is more likely to happen when complete answers to what are obviously homework questions are handed out on a plate.

Quote Originally Posted by userxbw
if they cheat
themselves then they have done just that. someone that is in college better should have leaned that lesson by then.
That is true, but then sometimes it can be difficult to do things substantially differently after seeing a complete solution to a problem, in which case the student would be faced with the dilemma of choosing between plagiarism (minor modifications are insufficient to excuse this) or to continue to try finding a different (and possibly inferior) solution to the homework problem.

Quote Originally Posted by userxbw
we are suppose to be making life easier for the other. Not the other way around. people all learn differently, who is to say they cannot learn by examples and seeing solutions to the problem?
Hence, feel free to post solutions to similiar problems, e.g., a variation of the problem posed such that the student has to understand the solution to come up with a similiar solution to the original problem, or perhaps a simplified version of the original problem to demonstrate some critical idea in the problem solving method. It may also help if you explained in prose the ideas behind your solution to the alternative problem.