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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

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Tags that should have references to standard loopholes, I/O standards, etc., do not

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Can we link canonical meta posts (e.g “what is a quine”, standard loopholes) more actively on the site?

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Existance of known score but unknown exact code

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Community Promotion Ads — 2019

discussion community-ads

answered yesterday Adám 28.1k

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List of bounties with no deadline

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Best of PPCG 2018 – Now Accepting Nominations!

discussion featured best-of

modified 2 days ago BMO 11.8k

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What is the community stance on posting a codegolf question just to answer it yourself?

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modified Feb 13 at 21:22 moonheart08 598

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Should we start “reviving” older challenges?

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answered Feb 8 at 12:42 Kevin Cruijssen 38.4k

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Best of PPCG 2018 — Call for Categories [duplicate]

discussion best-of

modified Feb 7 at 16:54 DJMcMayhem♦ 40.9k

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Are esolang design questions on topic?

discussion languages

asked Feb 7 at 0:08 p.s.w.g 573

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Should “A Multipurpose Quine” be reopened?

discussion specific-question closed-questions reopening

modified Feb 6 at 21:56 DJMcMayhem♦ 40.9k

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Byte count for imports (or other things) not needed for definition, but for execution

discussion code-golf scoring

modified Feb 4 at 2:48 Mego♦ 26.1k

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Problems Not Yet Challenged

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modified Feb 2 at 20:54 Peter Taylor 39.6k

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If there is “a winner for every language” in a code golf challenge, does competitiveness matter?

discussion rules new-users noncompeting

modified Feb 1 at 3:33 lirtosiast 18k

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Remove [windows-system] tag

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How does the community work? [duplicate]

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What programming languages have been created by PPCG users?

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answered Jan 27 at 15:32 BMO 11.8k

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Can we raise the privilege levels?

discussion graduation privileges

answered Jan 22 at 21:54 Robert Cartaino♦ 98

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Things to avoid when writing challenges

discussion faq policy challenge-quality defaults

modified Jan 16 at 16:10 Luis Mendo 74.5k

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You have reached your question limit

discussion support

answered Jan 8 at 21:30 Mego♦ 26.1k

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Deleted question appears on review queue

bug reviewing deleted-questions

answered Jan 7 at 13:35 Dennis♦ 188k

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2018: a year in moderation

discussion moderation statistics

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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]

discussion community-ads

modified Dec 26 '18 at 21:55 Dennis♦ 188k

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Change the use of the “Game” tag?

discussion tags

answered Dec 25 '18 at 13:28 Dennis♦ 188k

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Can we expect out arguments to be allocated?

discussion output

modified Dec 20 '18 at 20:55 Rogem 730

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Which number formats are acceptable in output?

discussion answers defaults output

answered Dec 20 '18 at 2:03 Sparr 5,117

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Tips for King of the Hill challenges

discussion challenge-quality king-of-the-hill

modified Dec 18 '18 at 15:55 Nathan Merrill 7,007

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What happened to the memes page?

discussion deleted-questions

modified Dec 12 '18 at 21:38 caird coinheringaahing 7,511

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What is happening to PPCG?

discussion new-users site-health

modified Dec 10 '18 at 18:46 Arkine 3

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Does linter golf require a specific interpreter to be a valid answer for golf?

discussion code-golf answers

answered Dec 6 '18 at 0:31 Mego♦ 26.1k

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Should we change our name?

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modified Dec 4 '18 at 9:48 JonMark Perry 101

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If we find a programming language in the Library of Babel, can we use it?

discussion rules languages

modified Dec 3 '18 at 20:55 DJMcMayhem♦ 40.9k

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Default for Code Golf: Input/Output methods

discussion faq policy code-golf defaults

answered Dec 1 '18 at 3:58 lirtosiast 18k

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A proposal to combat Meta Bloat™: The Big Consensus Freeze

discussion policy rules new-users site-health

modified Nov 25 '18 at 16:06 PyRulez 3,718

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I asked a word question that has run away with me?

discussion support asking-questions specific-question questions

answered Nov 24 '18 at 19:18 Nathan Merrill 7,007

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Is it permitted for a submission to terminate merely with probability 1?

discussion policy answers

modified Nov 23 '18 at 13:28 mroman 1,102

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What are the relationships between programming languages created by PPCG users

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modified Nov 23 '18 at 13:26 mroman 1,102

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What is code length?

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answered Nov 23 '18 at 12:37 mroman 1,102

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Sorting answers

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answered Nov 23 '18 at 3:29 xnor 90.9k

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What should we do when a language cannot answer a given challenge?

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modified Nov 21 '18 at 23:55 lirtosiast 18k

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Post other people's code?

discussion policy answers

answered Nov 20 '18 at 13:13 Dennis♦ 188k

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Can we use theoretically-impossible functions?

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answered Nov 19 '18 at 18:01 Dennis♦ 188k

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kolmogorov-complexity is not as a mathematics problem, score has to be inferior [closed]

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modified Nov 17 '18 at 19:36 lirtosiast 18k

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Where to find an online testing environment for specific programming languages?

discussion testing

modified Nov 15 '18 at 12:15 mroman 1,102

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Are infinite score allowed by default for “lowest score win”?

discussion defaults code-challenge

modified Nov 12 '18 at 14:08 Nathan Merrill 7,007

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It seems the consensus on Scratch is to use scratchblocks2 syntax, but what about “when green flag clicked”?

discussion code-golf

answered Nov 8 '18 at 5:15 Mego♦ 26.1k

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