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46 questions linked to/from Definitive policy about answers not meeting the challenge specification
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What do we consider an "unfair advantage"?
In this standard loophole, we forbid gaining an unfair advantage by creating new language features or implementing a new language specifically to be competitive for a particular challenge that's ...
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How do we encourage users to check the votes to delete?
Users with sufficiently high reputation can vote to delete and undelete posts. This is something that we need to do occasionally on PPCG, due to things like answers that don't comply with the ...
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Do we really want to delete undecidable answers, even if they were declared non-competing?
The problem emerged with this answer (deleted, and so invisible for users with less than 10k reputation)
The most relevant win criteria of the puzzle is the algorithmic complexity of the solution.
An ...
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Do we delete invalid tips?
Currently our consensus is that incorrect solutions should be deleted.
However it's not clear if this applies to tips questions. tips questions are sometimes a bit like regular code-golf challenges, ...
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Is the "no MetaGolfScript" rule somehow formalized?
A disadvantage of the "default rules as answers" is that the rules don't have a common, organizing, "formal" thought behind them. I'm talking about this one here. I understand it as applying to "...
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Challenges that invite non-competing answers
Although we have consensus on the Definitive policy about answers not meeting the challenge specification, it is aimed at answers rather than challenges. I had assumed that would imply that a ...
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Handling old, popular, creative, but non-competitive answers
Take a look at this answer: Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code.
This is the most upvoted answer on our site right now. However, as many have pointed out, by modern ...
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Do we accept submissions in unimplementable languages?
I recently posted a code-golf answer in Scheme-1. However, the Scheme-1 language cannot be implemented (as it would require the implementation to solve the halting problem).
I marked it as non-...
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What to do when almost all answers are wrong?
In a recent challenge, almost all answers use an algorithm that yields the wrong results due to floating point errors.
The challenge is/was not unclear, but there was no test case that led to the ...
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Measuring Sticky Tape in Bytes
This answer: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/107882/64538 received a comment which reads:
Hello, and welcome to PPCG! I don't know if tape is valid, but it should at least be 1 byte.
Is this ...
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Correct flag usage on invalid submissions
Recently, a couple of invalid answers have been flagged as NAA. This is somewhat of a duplicate of this answer on our policy, but I want to mention this because it's important that everyone is using ...
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Invalid answers in the review queue, but OP hasn't had time to fix it
It happens quite frequently that short answers (Title + Code) appear in the Low Quality review queue, due to the automatic flagging mechanisms.
In most cases, the answer "Looks OK". However, there ...
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When to choose "Recommend Deletion" in the Low Quality Posts queue?
I just reviewed two posts in the Low Quality Posts queue. These posts didn't fit the rules so I choosed "Recommend Deletion".
But now I was wondering whether I made the right choice. So, when do we ...
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Why is this non-serious-contender answer still around, despite a "helpful" flag?
As explained in our policy on serious contenders, this answer is not a serious contender because it is deliberately crafted to get a low score (the only way it could win is if there were no other ...
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