Linked Questions
19 questions linked to/from 2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
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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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Things to avoid when writing challenges
If there is something that you find annoying / counterproductive / unfair / detrimental / no longer funny in challenges (question posts), describe it in an answer here, and propose a recommended ...
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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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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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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:
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Should answers that break the rules be deleted?
Should we flag and delete Not an Answer posts?
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Do we really want LaTeX/MathJax (right now)?
Update: The decision has been made to deactivate MathJax on the site. This does not reflect the current votes, as these changed significantly after the decision was made.
We've had MathJax support ...
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Disallowing Explicit Exclusion of Languages
We've had discussion on a related topic before, where the general consensus is that challenges should be language-agnostic by default, but specific-language challenges were also acceptable within ...
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Guidelines for posting and closing popularity contests
In light of the controversy sparked by this question, I think we need to create a general "rule of thumb" policy on how objective a popularity-contest needs to be in order to be on-topic.
The main ...
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When should rule changes count?
Related: When is it allowable to change the rules?
As noted in the linked meta post above, it's typically particularly frowned upon to significantly change the rules of a challenge after posting it. ...
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Should language-specific code golf challenges be explicitly disallowed?
In light of a recent code golf challenge in which the specification restricts participation to JavaScript, I think it's time we revisited making a hard rule about language-specific golfs. We may ...
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Who has the final say on a challenge?
For the mod election questionnaire, I asked about a hypothetical situation:
A new-ish user posts a well-posed challenge that quickly gets many
answers. An hour later, they edit in a restriction ...
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The community is against cash prizes, but should that be advice or a rule?
Meta question showing community consensus that cash prizes are a bad idea.
A series of questions on main that offer non-trivial amounts in bitcoin for each new best answer:
Take it or leave it
Take ...
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Could we get the audio embedding feature for PPCG?
Music and AVP and Signal Processing can embed audio files via the SoundCloud player. Since the feature already exists, it would only need to be activated for PPCG, and judging by Signal Processing the ...
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Revisiting LaTeX
A while back, people asked about whether to include LaTeX formatting on PCG.SE. The answer was generally no, because people believed that the filesize was too big and had too much of an effect on ...
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High-rep hammers hamper high-rep humans
Sorry about the silly title - it just sort of happened that way and then I couldn't resist the alliteration.
Tag badges are awarded when you earn at least 1000 total score for at least 200 non-...
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