Linked Questions
15 questions linked to/from A proposal to combat Meta Bloat™: The Big Consensus Freeze
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New users' guides to golfing rules in specific languages
What are the most important rules a first-time golfer in a given language should know? For instance, how do golfed programs usually take input and output?
Each language should have a single CW answer ...
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Standard definitions of terms within specifications
Quite often I find that I am repeating myself when creating a challenge. For example, usually I have to retype the definition of "random" in all of my posts, or I have to specify the same thing about ...
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Definitive policy about answers not meeting the challenge specification
This question has been asked so often, I have no idea what our actual policy is:
Almost-correct answers
Should answers that break the rules be deleted?
Should we flag and delete Not an Answer posts?
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When to allow flexible input/output
First, I hope this isn't a duplicate (I've tried my best to search through for similar questions, but I very well may have overlooked one).
In the spirit of being fair to inflexible programming ...
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Do submissions have to be answered with a programming language?
We've got various answers strewn across meta that tell different stories:
On the standard loopholes, we disallow answers that aren't programming languages. This appears to be the most definitive ...
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Unspoken challenge rules
The barrier for entry for new users to write challenges is too high. I think there's a problem with how we are closing challenges. There are only two reasons we can close a challenge as "off-topic":
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Is it permitted for a submission to terminate merely with probability 1?
The question is in the title. I'm interested in submissions that terminate with probability 1 but have unbounded worst case running times.
This is related to the question Do programs have to ...
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Should answers to fixed-output challenges be written in a programming language?
We have a definition of what we consider a valid programming language for answers on PPCG. (If you disagree with this definition, please do so on that other post, and not here.)
The one type of ...
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Untyped functions in static languages
I'll be using Java in this post, but the following also applies to C#, and likely other languages.
We require that submissions must be a first-class function, or a full program to be valid. In Java, ...
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Do we need an introductory knowledge base? / Do we need a new language showcase?
So recently, a new user asked a well-meaning question, that was along the lines of "How did you learn all these things and at what point in your life/career did you make the decision to learn a ...
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Should PPCG have an official, objective, list of rules?
This is something that's been bothering me for a while, and is really impairing my use of the site.
Any competition needs rules in order to be fair, and this has been established repeatedly in Meta ...
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Newer users can't view vote counts, therefore cannot view current site consensus
So recently I've been reading through some policy recently, and besides there being a whole lot of them, I've noticed a problem. As I have less than 1k rep on the main community, I'm not an ...
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What should be the process for updating an established consensus?
There's many cases in which someone has a question about what site policy should be, people come up with suggestions, and one of them becomes highly popular and thus is treated as a rule. So far, ...
user62131
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A featured meta post to list those we don't have room to feature
Every so often someone requests that another meta post be added to the permanently featured spot on the front page. This is then declined because there would then be less space for hot meta posts, ...
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What to do about a fluctuating consensus?
Currently on the defaults for IO this answer is does not have enough positive votes to be instated. At press time it has +11-6 +18-9, defaults are required to have:
5 net votes and at least twice ...
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