Questions tagged [sandbox]
A sandbox is a place where you can post proposed challenges for others to review.
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Searching the Sandbox is somewhat broken
When I try to search the Sandbox for proposals with a specific word in them, using a query like inquestion:2140 interleave, I get this error message:
Oops! We can'...
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Fast and Golfiest Season 2 Looking for Advice
Season 2 is coming! Season 1 was fun and relatively well-received, but the main problem was that the scoring system is very broken. Hence I'm looking for advice about how to improve the system so that ...
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Announcing Code Golf Advent Calendar 2022! (+ Event challenge sandbox)
Following last year's event, we're doing Advent of Code Golf Code Golf Advent Calendar 20221! On each day between Dec 1st and Dec 25th (inclusive), a new challenge will be posted at UTC midnight2. It ...
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Are we still deleting sandbox posts?
The Sandbox currently says:
When you think your challenge is ready for the public, go ahead and post it, and replace the post here with a link to the challenge and delete the sandbox post.
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How can we get new users to use the sandbox properly?
The problem
Often, when we get new users, this happens:
they post their first few challenges, which receive negative feedback
they are instructed to use the sandbox, which they do
not long after (...
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Is OK to post a challenge for a sandbox post with 0 votes but is 1 week old
Is OK to post a challenge for a sandbox post with 0 votes but is 1 week old?
I have a lot of sandbox posts with 0 votes that are posted to Main, But this is OK?
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Announcing Advent of Code Golf 2021! (+ Event challenge sandbox)
Originally from caird coinheringaahing's idea, I thought about how we could do it this year with such a short time before December, and I decided to gather some ideas from previous AoC events. (There'...
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Advent of code golf?
Every year, during December, our cousin site, Advent of Code goes live, hosting a coding challenge every day from the 1st of December to the 24th of December. There have been various attempts for ...
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How to "re-propose" someone's abandoned Sandbox draft?
I'm looking at an older draft in the Sandbox that appears to be abandoned by the original poster. I'd like to bring attention to it, and potentially "re-propose" it as a draft that I'd then ...
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Issues with Sandbox Clutter
The Sandbox for Proposed Challenges is a great way for people to get feedback on challenges and make sure they are not duplicates, are clear, and are ready for posting before they post it to the main ...
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Introducing The Guild of Reviewers - Better Sandbox Feedback
(Thanks to Redwolf Programs for the name!)
In a recent discussion about the info box and linking to the Sandbox for new users to use it before attempting to post their first challenge, we noted that ...
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Threshold for votes in the Sandbox before posting in the main site? [duplicate]
Recently, I posted my first post on the main site for Code Golf, and it was poorly received because I am a newcomer to the site. I was asked to post it in the sandbox, here. As of now, it has one vote,...
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Users with 1 rep aren't able to post answers on Meta
Despite our help page claiming you only need 1 reputation to participate in Meta, multiple users have reported being unable to post answers on Meta, despite being supposed to be (screenshot of a ...
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What should we do against the downvote flood in the sandbox?
In the last 3 or 4 weeks there are quite a lot of sandbox proposals being downvoted. A quick count in the first page reveals that 12 proposals are at -1 and 2 are at -2, and some of the -1s are ...
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Should the Info Box Link to the Active Sorted Sandbox?
The link to the sandbox in the info box is nice, but I was wondering if it might be better to link to change the target of the link from
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Sandbox instructions for new users
We now have a nifty new info-box to point new users to the Sandbox. Hooray!
But when a new user does go to the Sandbox for the first time, the instructions there don't give them much to work from to ...
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An info box to point new users to The Sandbox
So along with site graduation, one new option we have is an info box on the sidebar. For example, you can see what these look like on Law or Judaism Stack Exchange (directly above the "featured on ...
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How do I deal with lack of attention in the Sandbox?
I know there are a lot of questions like this, but I didn't find any answer that satisfied me.
I'm pretty new to PPCG, so not all of my ideas are fantastic (e.g., this failure of a challenge) but I ...
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It's time for some Spring Cleaning
I'll cut straight to the point here:
We must do something about the Sandbox, and soon
The Sandbox recently hit 2000 non-deleted answers (5700 total). That's over 2000 potential challenges festering ...
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Linking to the sandbox
Why do people keep posting a link to the sandbox below their question? Isn't the sandbox supposed to serve the OP as a way of getting feedback on a challenge? It seems like a lot of people are ...
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Should every question be sandboxed?
A while ago I started a bit of a personal experiment and stopped using the sandbox for most of my questions. I think this experiment has given me a new perspective on the sandbox, that I would like ...
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Why is there no feature for upping your "answer" in the sandbox? [duplicate]
I think the Sandbox lacks a feature. I don't know what you guys do think about it but I came to think that many posts of the Sandbox get "forgotten" really fast. Even if there are activities on it. ...
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How can we get more feedback on our Sandbox questions?
Often, I have proposed a question to the sandbox and I never got any feedback on it; sometimes, I never got feedback until I had already posted the question. I want a way to fix this. I want Sandbox ...
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A Sandbox Migration Bot
I outlined a question in the Sandbox for a popularity-contest to create a user script that can migrate challenges to and from the Sandbox. I've since been informed by multiple people that the criteria ...
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Cluttering the Sandbox with Edits
A few times I have noticed that, to reduce clutter, people have taken it upon themselves to reduce the body of sandbox posts in bulk. While, I don't disagree with the practice of decluttering, by ...
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Test a question
The sandbox is a helpful feature[citation needed] but often I have a question that I feel needs to be tested before it can be asked. This is usually the case with a cops-and-robbers question or ...
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Remove all old, abandoned, low-score posts to clean up the sandbox!
The sandbox is a mess, let's clean it up!
Here are some solutions. Vote on them to express agreement.
Also, sort by votes.
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Can we get a draft feature?
Instead of posting all our drafts to the Sandbox, could we just add a draft feature to the main site?
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Can we retire the Sandbox?
It's been asked before, it's been rejected before and now I'm bringing it up again.
I have a love/hate relationship with the Sandbox. I've voiced complaints before but I now have an idea that might ...
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We need to talk about the Sandbox
Warning: this post will contain things that people don't want to hear. But it needs to happen.
Now that that's out of the way, let's get down to business.
The Sandbox was a brilliant idea. It ...
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How do we know that our question can graduate from the sandbox? [duplicate]
I have a couple of sandbox posts that have been there for a while. I have not posted them yet, though, because I don't know if they are ready...
How does one know if their ideas are ready to graduate ...
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Zero (neither positive or negative) attention to challenge proposal in sandbox - what to do?
A challenge proposal I posted into the sandbox has received zero attention (no votes, no comments).
Should I:
just post it on the main site and hope for the best?
do an edit to bump the question up ...
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Make it easier to post answers on Sandbox from Mobile App?
Maybe I'm missing something, but is there an easy-ish way to initiate the process of writing an answer in the Sandbox from the mobile app? I noticed the phrase "bottom of the page" in the sandbox ...
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Sandboxing Multi-Thread Challenges
I am currently sandboxing a challenge that will have two threads.
I was wondering if there was any good way to do Multi-thread challenges like cops-and-robbers. Typically I do one thread explaining ...
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Can we get a "magic link" to the Sandbox?
One of the more popular comments on our site goes something like this:
Hi, and welcome to PPCG! Your challenge was closed because it's a bit unclear/broad/whatever as it is now. I would recommend ...
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Code Golf Jeopardy
I'm considering doing an original challenge that (at of right now) consists of golfed solutions in the languages C, Python, <...
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Are there any repercussions for stealing Ideas off the sandbox?
I haven't seen it done myself, but are there any examples of people stealing other's challenges off the sandbox to use themselves?
what happened to those questions/users?
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Is there a sandbox or "unpublished" option for answers that are being developed? [duplicate]
While working on a code snipped for a recent question, I found that due to the self-referential nature of the answer, it would have been helpful to have a sandbox or test area for answers that aren't ...
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Community Moderator Removing Sandbox featured tag
If you look in the sandbox edit history there seems to be a long chain of edits where the community moderator removes the featured tag, and a trusted moderator replaces it. This is similar to the ...
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Tag Proposal: Orphaned
I'm proposing that we create an orphaned tag for use only in the sandbox.
This will allow people who have ceased work on a challenge idea to indicate such. The idea here is that other interested ...
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Is it a good idea to leave heavily downvoted challenges in the Sandbox as signposts?
Sandbox posts with several downvotes (such as the one about lolcats) are signs of what the community doesn't like. Should we keep them to remind users about what not to "ask"?
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Community is being Overprotective of the Sandbox
Recently @Community♦︎ has been constantly protecting our beloved Sandbox.
Our rep threshold for meta has been decreased specifically to grant new users access to the Sandbox so they can post their ...
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Introducing the PPCG Sandbox Viewer™
The sandbox post is really just a question which we use as a system to review posts (which is great and all), but wouldn't it be great if there could be like a dedicated review queue for Sandbox Post? ...
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What should we do about questions that get asked that are already Sandboxed?
So, sometimes, I see questions that are posted in the sandbox, but have been posted in main by another user. For example, this question yielded 242 rep to a user who did not originally post it in the ...
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Secret Santa's Sandbox
AKA: The Regifting of the White Elephants
Note - I'm not sure this is on-topic or not on meta, but it seems to be as good a place as any. Comment if you disagree.
I have a few challenges that I have ...
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Can I invent a language to solve a problem that's in the Sandbox?
We have rules about answering challenges with a language that was invented after the challenge was posted.
Can I invent a language to easily solve a challenge that's currently in the Sandbox and then ...
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Should we remove the reputation requirement for answering on meta?
I've been made aware that it's possible to lower the reputation threshold required to ask or answer questions on a per-site meta.
A very common complaint about the sandbox is that new users, who are ...
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4 options for the sandbox: Main or Meta & Community Wiki or not
Following Peter Taylor's comments that pointed out that this question (now deleted) is not giving meaningful voting results with only 2 options, here are all 4 options as answers so that I'm no longer ...
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How to move questions from the Sandbox
We've recently noted that our questions per day stat has gone down. We recently had somebody propose a renewal of the Weekly Challenges, but as I posted there, I don't think it's the right solution. ...
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Would you support the sandbox being Community Wiki in order to allow it to move to main? [duplicate]
Personally, I am against the sandbox being CW if it's on meta, but I'm very happy for it to be CW if it's on main (since it's unlikely it will work on main otherwise, so my small objections are ...