Improper quines

We've reached consensus on what counts as a proper quine over a year ago, yet the occasional "quine" that consists of nothing more than literals and/or NOPs still comes up.

While these answers used to be tolerated (and, on occasions, applauded) unless the challenge specifically asked for a proper quine, the community has recently started to downvote and/or delete improper quines even if the challenge didn't explicitly disallow them.

This course of action is a sane default; almost all quine-related challenges are rendered trivial if the program 1 is deemed quine enough for a submission. To back these actions with community consensus, I therefore propose the following.

If the challenge asks for quines and its spec doesn't explicitly allow improper quines, all submissions have to be proper quines.

If the challenge mentions quines and/or is tagged with quine, a program that would count as an improper quine (if its output matched its source code) is likewise disallowed.

Improper quines

We've reached consensus on what counts as a proper quine over a year ago, yet the occasional "quine" that consists of nothing more than literals and/or NOPs still comes up.

While these answers used to be tolerated (and, on occasions, applauded) unless the challenge specifically asked for a proper quine, the community has recently started to downvote and/or delete improper quines even if the challenge didn't explicitly disallow them.

This course of action is a sane default; almost all quine-related challenges are rendered trivial if the program 1 is deemed quine enough for a submission. To back these actions with community consensus, I therefore propose the following.

If the challenge asks for quines and its spec doesn't explicitly allow improper quines, all submissions have to be proper quines.

If the challenge mentions quines and/or is tagged with quine, a program that would count as an improper quine (if its output matched its source code) is likewise disallowed.

Improper quines

We've reached consensus on what counts as a proper quine over a year ago, yet the occasional "quine" that consists of nothing more than literals and/or NOPs still comes up.

While these answers used to be tolerated (and, on occasions, applauded) unless the challenge specifically asked for a proper quine, the community has recently started to downvote and/or delete improper quines even if the challenge didn't explicitly disallow them.

This course of action is a sane default; almost all quine-related challenges are rendered trivial if the program 1 is deemed quine enough for a submission. To back these actions with community consensus, I therefore propose the following.

If the challenge asks for quines and its spec doesn't explicitly allow improper quines, all submissions have to be proper quines.

If the challenge mentions quines and/or is tagged with quine, a program that would count as an improper quine (if its output matched its source code) is likewise disallowed.