Timeline for Should solution "catalogs" be on topic here?
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 5:45 | comment | added | Esolanging Fruit | You make it sound like our other mods are evil: "Our benevolent mod, Martin. Alex A, on the other hand..." | |
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| Aug 29, 2015 at 2:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCodeGolf/status/637449998343499777 | ||
| Aug 21, 2015 at 22:11 | vote | accept | Alex A. | ||
| Aug 21, 2015 at 8:19 | comment | added | Fatalize | My main concern is that the vast majority of answers are going to be very straightforward and simple. I don't think there are that many languages where you can golf outputting a short string. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 17:10 | comment | added | Alex A. | @Geobits The distinction is that there's no real way to "win" since it isn't a contest, though the participation is effectively the same. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 15:58 | comment | added | Geobits | Sure. My main point is that I don't see it as any different than most challenges (so wonder if I'm missing some distinction). To play, you pick a language, write code, and golf it :) | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 15:55 | comment | added | Alex A. | @Geobits I should note that I'm not trying to say that they are off topic, I'm just asking for community input at Doorknob's suggestion. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 12:59 | comment | added | Geobits | It seems that Martin intends for it to be more of a catalog of the shortest possible "Hello, World!" programs in many languages rather than a contest to see who can create the shortest submission in any language. : As someone who normally golfs in a "losing" language, I don't see the issue here. What's the actual difference between a "catalog" and a list of golfed answers as usual? More languages? That doesn't seem to be something we should discourage. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 6:31 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | @AlexA., you're wrong. dmckee, one of the original mods, is on record as saying that they deliberately didn't close down the off-topic popularity-contest as an experiment. IIRC the mods perceived the site as stagnating or in decline. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 23:59 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | @Mauris Definitely on topic, but not because they are popular. This isn't the place for that discussion though. Feel free to join us in chat if you want to continue it. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 23:58 | comment | added | lynn | @MartinBüttner I feel like PPCG has been historically lax with on-topic compared to bigger Stack Exchange sites like SO. How do you feel about "tips for golfing in XXX" questions? | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 23:38 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | @Mauris While I think these should be on topic, I don't think "it's popular, so it's on-topic" is a solid basis for an argument, at least not for Stack Exchange's quality standards. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 23:34 | comment | added | lynn | For reference, there was a previous, extremely popular question that was basically a "catalog" with a very bad scoring system stapled onto it: here. These questions feel very "in the spirit of" PPCG, and I see no reason to deem them off-topic if the community likes them. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 23:33 | answer | added | DoorknobMod | timeline score: -4 | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 23:33 | answer | added | Martin EnderMod | timeline score: 19 | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 23:22 | history | asked | Alex A. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |