I follow an RSS feed of Scott Hanselman's, and by clicking through some of today's post I came across this "crowd-sourced mentorship" site for coding. <http://exercism.io/> (it is sfw as long as you don't mind a slightly demonic color scheme). If you are worried about visiting the URL I completely understand, here is a screenshot of part of the homepage: 

![](https://i.imgur.com/ogFBTnk.png)

From their site, they link back to Stack Overflow which was slightly surprising (but not entirely surprising given the size of SO). My surprise turned to full on curiosity when I followed the link to find that their website had created a tag here. [exercism](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/exercism "show questions tagged 'exercism'"). If you browse the tag you will find a collection of questions about boilerplate problems they solve. However, none of these problems benefit from the tag, and all it really looks like is advertising.

Is this condoned? I find it hard to tell, and there are only 15 of these tagged so it seems like it could possibly have just slipped under the radar.