Linked Questions
23 questions linked to/from The Tag Categorization Project
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What are the winning criteria I can use for my challenge?
I'm writing a challenge, and I'm not sure what possible winning criteria exist. I know about code-golf, but what else is there to use, and how do I score answers with those criteria?
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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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Interpretation of Truthy/Falsey
Quite a few code-golf questions require output to be "truthy or falsey". This is possibly confusing as these terms can possibly mean different things to different people, and especially in different ...
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Let's create some new types of challenges!
Our site needs unique content. The more different and new a question is, the more interesting it will probably be. Therefore, let's propose new genres of challenges!
What exactly is a challenge genre?...
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Welcome to Code Golf and Coding Challenges Stack Exchange!
What is this site?
This is a place to host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf. We are unlike most sites in the Stack Exchange network. We are not a question-answer site, nor are we a ...
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Tagging: are we doing it wrong?
I wanted to post this for a while...
First off, I think that we're not tagging enough. Currently, we have an average of 2.1 tags per question. I've checked some (thematically) comparable sites, and ...
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What is the point of unicode gibberish?
It's been a few years since I came back into this forum to play some code golf and I am seeing a flood of unicode only "languages" where large operations are hidden in a single unicode character and ...
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Do we really need the [regex-golf] tag?
I've been using search to find questions that don't have a tag for a winning criterion (https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/908/3808), and here's the search query I have so far:
https://...
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What to do about the Schlafi question (and are time consuming pure programming puzzles on topic?)
So, recently this question (on which I have the only answer) has been bumped and as a result I have noticed several upvotes coming in on my answer.
Today I received some downvotes, and as a result ...
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Should we update our ask question page?
About ten months ago, we got a new ask question page. This adds a few features:
A custom modal that appears when a user asks their first question:
Custom warnings in the "review" pane of ...
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Make the criteria tags obligatory
There is this question:
Should we consider dropping or modifying the "objective winning criteria" requirement?
Instead, think it is better to make the winning criteria tags:
atomic-...
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A Better Help Center
This question is somewhat in response to The one limiting stat for us still being in beta where the consensus seemed to be that question quality was the main issue. I definitely agree.
I believe that ...
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Tagging programming puzzles that are not code-golf?
I'm new to this site, and I see that it is called "Programming Puzzles & Code Golf", and that its url is https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
If I look at the front page of questions, I see that ...
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What should the tag wiki excerpts for language-specific tags be?
Usually, language-specific tags have this excerpt:
This challenge is intended to utilize the _____ language as a means of solving a problem. However, language-specific challenges are generally ...
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Who wins code golf if there is a tie?
On my code golf challenge, there are two tie 24 Bytes answers.
The first one (Excel) is great because of the creativity put into it and the second one (MATL) is just skill I think and each one should ...
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