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Things to avoid when writing challenges

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The relationships between question length, views, and votes (and more painful graphs)

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I'm stepping down

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Is CGCC culture compatible with competitive programming culture?

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Is playing reverse code golf possible? Will it ever be?

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Is using a language limitation to simplify an answer cheating? [duplicate]

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How can we clearly define “Must work for theoretically large values”?

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Zsh: Functions and Math functions

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What should I do with this question?

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How can we improve the quality of questions/challenges?

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What to do with a challenge that is a dupe of a sandboxed one?

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Graphical-output - trivial solutions [closed]

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Hard-Coding in “One OEIS after another”

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Should a command line argument for increasing memory limits count towards byte/character count?

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Do programs need to take input, if it is in the spec? [duplicate]

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When can challenges be reused? If never, then why can't I answer?

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Code golf involving GPS?

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Acceptable answer for a code golf

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Questions that ask for artifacts or witnesses

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What are programming languages?

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Default for Code Golf: Input/Output methods

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Unspoken challenge rules

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What's a number? [duplicate]

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What programming languages have been created by PPCG users?

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What are the relationships between programming languages created by PPCG users

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Should we close old KoTH challenges as off-topic?

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An info box to point new users to The Sandbox

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Ethics of Golfing in Assembly or other extremely uncommon languages

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Using **kwargs in Python

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