Questions tagged [support]
Indicates that the question is asking for clarification or help around a site feature, rule or custom, such as how something works, or why specific rules are in place.
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Hey Stack Exchange, how are we doing?
The last time we heard from a Stack Exchange community manager was in March of 2014, when Grace Note came to talk to us about the progress we've made as a site. That was back when code-trolling was a ...
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Where to find an online testing environment for specific programming languages?
Here is my scenario.
I pose a programming puzzle. It might be golf, or might be something else, but I don't specify the language.
Some posts a answer that looks really good, but I don't have a ...
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How does the Sandbox work? How do I use it?
Link to sandbox
I've noticed some people here talking about a "proposed question sandbox."
Where is the sandbox?
Why should I use the sandbox?
How does the sandbox work?
What should we do with ...
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What are our specific abbreviations and terms?
Newcomers to codegolf.SE are often compelled to ask what many of our abbreviations and terms mean. Let us list them here so this information always will be easily available.
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Please raise or remove CW limits on Code Golf SE site
Please kindly raise or remove CW limits on Code Golf SE site
Raise or Remove CW Conversion because of too many edits
Raise or Remove CW Conversion because of too many answers
Please allow current ...
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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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Template For Challenges
What format is generally good for questions? Is there a good template I can use?
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Community FAQ for Code Golf and Coding Challenges
Community FAQ
For the Code Golf and Coding Challenges site
For official guidance from Stack Exchange, visit the Help Center.
General information
Welcome to Code Golf and Coding Challenges Stack ...
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I Don't Have Enough Reputation to Comment
I am not very good at golfing by myself, but once in a while, I come across something small that I notice that could help. These are typically tricks I have found while looking at tips. Some users ...
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When is Programming Puzzles & Code Golf getting community ads?
Over 3 months ago, on February 23, 2016, it was announced that this SE site was graduating.
That post said that
You will soon be able to select your own community ads. Give me a moment to set ...
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Does the OP have to explicitly state the winning criteria?
If a challenge is tagged with code-golf or fastest-code, do you really have to say that that is the winning criteria in the question? It seems pretty obvious, just by looking at the tags, right? After ...
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Amend FAQ to state that language-agnostic is the default
In the meta question Is [language-agnostic] an appropriate tag the top-voted answer is in favour of eliminating the language-agnostic tag provided that we make it clear that our intent is that all ...
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Suggestion/Edit for answers if user "Last seen more than X years ago"
I made a suggestion (which was rejected) for this answer but just because of that user "Last seen more than 3 years ago" (at the time of posting this question)
I know that it is bad idea to ...
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How should my challenge be tagged?
How should I tag Good Old Suffix Vector?
I initially tagged it code-golf because it requires code that is as short and possible, and logic because it involves constructing boolean values, and there ...
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What's the difference between [source-layout] and [restricted-source]?
Some challenges have restrictions that apply to the program's source code, rather than the program's behaviour. These challenges are generally tagged with restricted-source or source-layout or both.
I ...
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Can interpreter flags causing major language differences be considered different versions of the language?
I recently (this morning) extended Cubically to have an internal cube of variable size. The cube size is passed via a third interpreter flag (3 for a 3x3x3, ...
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Adding a link to Try It Online to existing answers
If I find an old answer whose code I verified works using, say, Try It Online, can I edit that answer and add the link?
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What is codegolf.xyz?
Yesterday google turned up "codegolf.xyz". It seems to be an up-to-date mirror of codegolf.se but not exactly. For instance, if I go to the first question and click "more comments", it doesn't show ...
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Where should non-challenge questions go?
I have a question about programming puzzles or code golf, and it's not a challenge for others to solve. Where should I post it?
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Stack Snippets messing with JS?
I've noticed that my Red vs. Blue Sandbox controller snippet here has stopped working (at least in Chrome).
This is incredibly strange because the JSFiddle that is exactly identical is working fine. ...
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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?
Every single ...
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Is there a way to search for all content except my own?
I tried to get all tcl posts that are not from my own authorship
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&q=tcl%20-user%3ame
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tcl -user:me
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What is too many sandboxed challenges?
I am very enthusiastic about this community (but I am very very young here) and I really want to contribute with new challenges.
On the other hand, I don't want to "clog" the sandbox with challenges ...
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Vox Populi needs 40 votes a day, limit is 30 votes
If you visit the badges page, you'll find out, that for the badge 'Vox Populi', which has been awarded 3 times, you need to have "Used the maximum 40 votes in a day".
Today I reached the daily vote ...
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How to participate in image-processing challenges if the language does not support images?
Is participating in image-processing challenges allowed, if the language does not support images? If it is allowed, what shall the input format be?
Related question where this issue came up in the ...
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Search by language?
There is so much gold on this site, but it's not so easy to find.
For example, I'm golfing in J and like to see expert answers to old questions. Currently, I have to open a question, and search for ...
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How can I incorporate good-looking mathematical exposition into my question/answer?
How can I incorporate good-looking mathematical exposition into my question/answer?
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Legal to use Pokemon, etc as Themes for Challenges?
In the Golf/Puzzle Lab, I came up with an idea to create a Pokemon Emerald Battle Factory KotH. However, I had some concerns on the legality.
The closest thing I could find from Nintendo is the IP ...
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What to do when something offensive in chat is edited into something not offensive before it is seen
I went into a chat room, and someone said something offensive to me. So I flagged it as offensive. Almost immediately, the chat message was edited into something nicer. When the 10k-ers came into the ...
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Would this potential challenge be a duplicate of an existing one?
5 years ago I asked this question.
I made it clear that leaving a double h lefter from a "sh" or "SH" becoming "thh" or "Thh" was acceptable. But now I'm older ...
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(When) do my mod tools go away?
I opened SE a few minutes ago and was pleasantly surprised to see I'd reached 2k rep, and alongside that gained access to mod tools (sehr interessant). I was mostly very confused, since I was certain ...
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Do you gain reputation from upvotes from the meta site
I just have a simple question: Do you gain any reputation from the upvotes from the meta-site?
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Are multi-language submissions allowed?
I'm not talking about,
Here's a part of a solution in CJam, and here's the other half in Javalanguage, you figure it out
I'm talking about,
my language is really simplistic and can't read more ...
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How much information can 10k+ users share?
Upon reaching 10k reputation, users have access to the moderator tools, which contains information and stats on:
Deleted posts and votes to delete
Closed posts and pending votes to close and reopen
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A clarification on Vyncode [closed]
This was prompted by the recent meta post about byte compression in scores, as well as other bits of confusion and uncertainty I've seen on the site.
If you've been around on the main site in the last ...
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How did I lose 5 reputation on an answer?
On this answer, it says I lost 5 reputation, and I'm really puzzled about what chain of events could have caused this. I don't care about the lost rep, I'm just curious to understand as I've never ...
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What does "Standard loopholes apply" mean?
I'm new to PPCG and I've seen a bunch of questions with this line in their requirements:
Standard loopholes apply.
A quick search on Meta tells me it's a series of restrictions, or disallowed ...
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50 reputation to comment on answer to 'The Programming Language Quiz'?
I want to comment the language of a code snippet found on The Programming Language Quiz, but I can't, because I don't have enough reputation. I've tried it in the programming language that I think it ...
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Are we allowed to talk about our suspensions?
I got suspended a while back, and have changed since then. I don't mind talking about it if people ask, or if it is on-topic to the conversation. However, whenever I talk about my suspension, I get ...
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How do I get enough people to notice my sandbox post?
In the previous sandboxes, it was suggested that if you had 3 upvotes on your sandbox submission, it was ready to go.
I have written a few sandbox posts recently. Of these, all have been commented on ...
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Can we clear up the [faq-proposed] tag?
There are currently 13 questions tagged with faq-proposed, the "staging ground" for posts before they become official faq posts and are added to the FAQ. faq-proposed is not intended to be a ...
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What's the "accepted answer"?
In the past, I've made noise about what the accepted answer is and whose choice it is, because I feel it's important people accept the answer they wanna accept.
I think that linked ideology makes ...
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Does codegolf involve only code size?
I'd like to know if codegolf does allow other kinds of challenges, like memory-size related ones (Given a structure, try to use the least amount of bits to store the same information) and so on. I don'...
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Tag-badge not awarded
To get a bronze tag badge, one needs to achieve this:
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
However, I gave 20 non-wiki answers with ...
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Free privileges with "Graduation Userscript"
I just noticed something about my account. I just recently discovered the Graduation Userscript. I then noticed that I was (not actually) close to getting the privilege "See Vote Counts". I tried it ...
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Does reputation not dilute question quality? / Help request
I have a new best-in-class solution to a protected question and am unable to post anything because of being a new user. Does this community not see diluted question quality from new users earning ...
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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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Non-printable characters in answer?
This mostly applies to kolmogorov-complexity questions.
Is it allowed to use non-printable characters in answers? This effectively makes the answer a string of bytes.
If yes, how is the answer ...
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How do I respond to a suspected sockpuppet situation
I think I have detected a case of sockpuppetry, and have already flagged one of the posts asking for moderator action but this has not occurred.
How could we go about fixing this? I've already ...
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Pointing out bugs without comment privilege
I found a bug in a code golf submission but do not yet have commenting privilege. Is there a polite way for me to let the user know about this bug?
The site offers me to "suggest an edit" but I'm not ...
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