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General information
- Welcome to Code Golf and Coding Challenges Stack Exchange!
- How does this site work?
- Useful External Resources
Posting Challenges
- What details should always be given for a code golf task?
- What makes winning criteria "objective"?
- Template For Challenges
- Where should non-challenge questions go?
- How does the Sandbox work? How do I use it?
- Things to consider when creating a challenge
- Things to avoid when writing challenges
- Let's decide what kind of non-challenge questions we want once and for all
- Are two questions duplicates if they have different scoring rules?
- How long should I wait before accepting an answer?
- What are the winning criteria I can use for my challenge?
- Standard definitions of terms within specifications
Posting Solutions
- Loopholes that are forbidden by default
- How to count bytes FAQ
- Interpretation of Truthy/Falsey
- Definitive policy about answers not meeting the challenge specificationCorrect flag usage on invalid submissions
- Default for Code Golf: Input/Output methods
- Default for Code Golf: Program, Function or Snippet?
- New users' guides to golfing rules in specific languages
- Should submissions be allowed to exit with an error?
- General rules for custom languages and libraries
Interacting with the site
- What are our specific abbreviations and terms?
- Is it OK to promote my own posts in chat?
- How can I incorporate good-looking mathematical exposition into my question/answer?
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