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Challenge (Solve subset sum quickly if P = NP) incorrectly closed as duplicate [duplicate]
My challenge Solve Subset-Sum in polynomial time (...if P = NP) was closed as a duplicate of Golf the Subset-Sum Problem. But the restricted-complexity aspect of my challenge makes it very different. ...
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Making king-of-the-hill out of old question [duplicate]
In case you're wondering what a king of the hill question is: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/tags/king-of-the-hill/info
The question: If you see an old interesting question, that you think would ...
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Can I repost a challenge with different rules? [duplicate]
Recently, I posted a code-golf question about number sequences. However, as I was looking through the question later, I thought to myself, "Wouldn't this be good as a fastest-algorithm question?" It's ...
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What IS a duplicate? [duplicate]
I've seen many challenges get marked as duplicates on this stack. Most I see as fair, some, not so much.
What qualifies as a duplicate question?
Consider challenges where:
Entries from ...
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What counts as a duplicate on CodeGolf.SE? [duplicate]
Unlike on other Stack Exchange sites, the execution of an idea really makes a difference on this site. My question is, if an idea for a challenge has been used before, does that make any other ...
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Duplicates with different tag [duplicate]
There's been a couple of instances recently of people taking a question that's just been asked and answered and re-asking the question with a different winning criterion. Can we (or should we) close ...
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Can I post a challenge that is the same as an existing challenge but with different criteria? [duplicate]
Let's say I find an awesome challenge here, but I can make a different challenge out of it by changing the criteria significantly. Is it poor form to post a new challenge with a completely different ...
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How could the default close reasons be improved?
One of the more popular suggestions from We're not a Q&A site. But what should be done about it? was to improve the wording of the close reasons or maybe change some of them altogether. We've ...
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Is fibtraction a dupe?
Recently this question caused a bit of a stir. The admitted goal of the challenge was to replace our old fibonacci question which the op felt was outdated.
The question was closed twice by high rep ...
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Closing old question as duplicate of a new one
What is our policy regarding closing an old challenge as a duplicate of a new one?
I know this happens on other sites (at least SO), if the newer question is generally better or usually if it gathers ...
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Should "Code the Huffman!" remain closed as a duplicate of a very old question?
Tl;dr: I think my question on Huffman coding was wrongly closed as duplicate and should be re-opened.
Early this week, I had the idea of posting a challenge based on Huffman coding. I found a very ...
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Is a popularity contest a duplicate of a code golf (and vice versa)?
I've noticed this happening a few times: A challenge that is very similar to an existing code golf challenge is posted as a popularity contest, or the other way around. There seems to be very little ...
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We decided to post a new factorial challenge. Should we close the old one as dupe?
The existing factorial challenge has some restrictions on the domain, performance, and banning built-ins. I opened a meta question about it a week ago, and as per the meta consensus, we decided to ...
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Am I allowed to post a second, better edition of a challenge?
I recently made my first PPCG challenge, Sign that word!. Now that various improvements have been suggested by more experienced users of PPCG, I would like to post a second, improved version of the ...