Timeline for Announcing the PPCG Challenge-Writing Competition!
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| Apr 8, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | user45941 | @user2428118 It's also impossible to prevent others from making edits, which makes the whole independence thing moot. | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 12:21 | comment | added | user2428118 | Additionally, since the winner is judged by the total score, edits and improvements made after the challenge was posted will still be taken into account by people when deciding to vote. So the rule won't prevent people from having their chances to win increased by the help of others. (Nor should that happen: IMO, the goal of a competition like this should be to have fun creating and solving quality challenges. Counteracting means by which challenges can be improved does not help towards this.) | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 22:44 | comment | added | Matthew Roh | Oh. By the way, I partly agree to this idea. I mean, tags get chosen randomly, what if we get king-of-the-hill or cops-and-robbers? That's the reason why I partly agree to this idea. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 16:42 | comment | added | Nathan Merrill | @Mego Playing devils' advocate: The entire premise that we need a sandbox is a good idea is based on anecdotes. We haven't actually performed any studies on the effectiveness on the sandbox. That said, I do agree, we should remove the no-sandbox rule. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | user63187 | @SGSEGV yeah but your last challenge was not | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 4:28 | comment | added | user45941 | @AnthonyPham That's exactly why this is a bad idea. It's hard to write good challenges - that's why we have the Sandbox. Having a competition where people don't use the Sandbox will result in a lot of low-quality challenges being posted, which is exactly the problem the Sandbox was created to solve. | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 21:00 | comment | added | Anthony Pham | I think that's part of the challenge: whether you can make a high-quality challenge by yourself without the assistance of others involved. Only the best can do so | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 3:31 | comment | added | user45941 | @SIGSEGV An anecdote is not evidence. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 2:56 | comment | added | Matthew Roh | Sometimes the Sandbox is useless for me. I have made some great successes without Sandbox. | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 5:58 | history | answered | user45941 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |