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46 questions linked to/from Definitive policy about answers not meeting the challenge specification
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Should answers that break the rules be deleted? [duplicate]
I'm new to the review queue and I don't know what our policy is on well-intentioned answers that happen to break some of the rules stated in the question. For example, this answer was recently flagged ...
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What should count as "not an answer" here? [duplicate]
Lately, I've seen a bunch of poor answers flagged as "not an answer" (NAA) in the flag review list.
Such flags seem to be controversial, even among reviewers. For example, at the moment:
this ...
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Should we flag and delete Not an Answer posts? [duplicate]
I noticed a couple of answers to the tweetable art question have been converted to community wiki. These are questions which, although interesting, didn't keep to the question requirements (the code ...
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Almost-correct answers [duplicate]
Sometimes answers are posted, which almost comply with the specs. They might be a clever, interesting take on the problem, but not follow one of the rules, or the program might crash in a few rare ...
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Can we stop flagging poor answers as "not an answer"? [duplicate]
We have downvotes for that (and in some cases "Very Low Quality"). It seems that basically every time I see a flag in the queue, it has at least one "Not an Answer" flag stuck to it, no matter what's ...
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What should the policy be on partial answers? [duplicate]
What should our rules be regarding partial answers? For example,
answers to code-golf questions that are not yet golfed
answers that almost work, but not quite (answers that require a simple bugfix)
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Answers written in "joke" languages [duplicate]
As an answer to this question, I wrote an answer in the "programming language" 2014 (screenshot). The answer was deleted, accompanied with this note:
I'm temporarily removing this post in ...
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How do we respond to ungolfed submissions to code golf challenges? [duplicate]
I'm a regular lurker of PP&CG. Today I encountered a situation I'm not sure how this community regularly responds to. I'm asking this to learn more about the common and accepted practices here, ...
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Is short code mandatory in a code golf submission? [duplicate]
If there is a code golf competition are you allowed to submit a submission that is clearly not going to win? I.E thousands of bytes? I know they do say that solutions must be serious competing entries,...
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Are non-competing answers allowed? [duplicate]
What prompted this question was a unique case, but I feel that it is generally applicable.
Are non-competing answers allowed on this site?
A non-competing answer is one which is not taken into ...
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Dealing with a highly-popular invalid answer [duplicate]
This answer to the Output your programming language name challenge is invalid: it doesn't actually produce output, and arguably isn't even a program (at least, not in the language it claims to be ...
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Official definition of 'noncompeting' [duplicate]
Recently, I was looking at one of my older questions, QWERTY Quine Creation, and I noticed that the JavaScript answer was invalid. I notified the creator, who marked the answer noncompeting. The same ...
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What exactly can be placed in an answer [duplicate]
There seems to be a lot of confusion over this cw post. My intention with posting it as an answer was to allow easier edit access to the scoreboard for competitors to place their scores onto a ...
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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
This "sandbox" is a place where Code Golf users can get feedback on prospective challenges they wish to post to main. This is useful because writing a clear and fully specified challenge on ...
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Loopholes that are forbidden by default
There are a number of standard loopholes which experienced question-setters seek to explicitly close. However, inexperienced question-setters may unintentionally leave them open, or respondents may ...
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We're not a Q&A site. But what should be done about it?
It has come up several times recently (more than usual) that PPCG differs from most of the other Stack Exchange sites in that it's not a Q&A site. People don't come here to ask a question because ...
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Default for Code Golf: Program, Function or Snippet?
One of the things many (new?) users forget to specify in code-golf challenges is whether the answers should provide a full program or a function (or even just a snippet). For most such things, we have ...
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A proposal to combat Meta Bloat™: The Big Consensus Freeze
I believe it's a widely acknowledged problem in this community that the number of meta posts a new user needs to know to figure out all the rules has long got out of hand. We require certain answer ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Can serious contenders do more than the challenge asks for?
As our help center likes to put it:
All solutions to challenges should:
Correctly implement the required specification.
Be a serious contender for the winning criteria in use. For example, an entry ...
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Is there a place I can place my so-close-but-not-quite answer?
I'm asking in general, but in my specific case I was working on an answer for Programming a Pristine World and got $><<"%c"*5%%w(w o r l d). The fatal flaw ...
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Are theoretically incorrect answers allowed if it's (near) impossible to find incorrect inputs?
The main motivation for my question is hash functions. Let's take an example challenge (although here's a real challenge):
Print 42 if the input is "the answer to life the universe and everything", ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Code Golf is scheduled for an election next week, September 14th ...
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Can we revisit our policy on answers that are not serious contenders?
Currently we have a policy that all answers must be serious contenders, or they are subject to deletion. This can be found in help/on-topic:
Be a serious contender for the winning criteria in use. ...
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How should we handle answers that predate standard loopholes?
There was a time—a dark, dark time—in which there were no standard loopholes. Since we began classifying certain things as loopholes and banning their use, the overall quality of the content on this ...
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Allow answers to be scored in things other than bytes to stop the log byte madness
On January 4th, 2022, it was decided we would allow scoring in fractional bytes. A decision I mostly agree with. Just to recap, the main reason this is beneficial for the site is:
It allows comparing ...
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Codegolf rules and boundaries
So last time, I was hanging on codegolf, and came across the question Print the digital root, where one guy replied here with a one-byte code.
Of course, it takes advantages of the built-in and ...
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Acceptable answer for a code golf
The Code Golf stackexchange tour gives a detailed explanation on, how to ask a Code Golf question.
But what about how to answer? I have multiple questions about: How to give an answer?. Neither the ...
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