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I am the person who downvoted. I am not afraid "to come forward", as many have speculated. I don't believe that I have done anything wrong, and I am rather certain I have not broken any rules.
So why?
The short is that I think that all those answers are bad. I'm not interested in hurting any persons rep or feelings.
My reasoning for thinking these ...
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Enforce standards for these questions
I think a lot of the problem is that golf-this-for-me tips questions aren't held to the site's usual standards of clarity, completeness, and objectiveness. I know these can be hard for new askers to get a handle on, but we already require the same for challenges they'd post. Sandboxing should be strongly encouraged here ...
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Best mathematical insight
On this site we often see answers in languages specifically designed for short code, or designed to be fast. Sometimes, a nice golfing trick or speed-up technique surprises us with its ingenuity, beyond the standard use of that language.
And occasionally an answer shows up that uses an unexpected approach to greatly simplify the ...
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Wild card
For a deserving challenge, answer or user that isn't a good fit for any of the other categories.
I (@KevinCruijssen) nominate all @stasoid's answers for the Add a language to a polyglot challenge. This challenge was created in 2016, but @stasoid has been adding new languages every few weeks for the past 2+ years. It's insane to think that this ...
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You shouldn't use moderator flags for this purpose -- I don't know what you expect me to do. Information about individual votes is private, even for moderators.
Presumably whoever cast these votes is unlikely to look for a meta post asking them to explain their reasoning. Since there's no way to tell what motivated this, my suggestion is to shrug and move ...
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It Depends
In general, we handle reposting of challenges on a case by case basis. For this particular instance, I would argue that this KOTH challenge is OK to re-run, provided that someone can't just take the existing winner and re-submit it as a serious contender. In other words, there needs to be enough tweaking to the ruleset to make it a "new-enough" ...
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Sorry, it was an accident. I had a little fiasco with my computer this morning and I must've pressed the down arrow inadvertently. Stupid touchscreen...
If you make an edit I'll give you an upvote.
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code-golf compression kolmogorov-complexity
The task
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Your program or function will be given as input the first 6 paragraphs of Lewis Carroll's famous novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with all vowels [aeiouAEIOU] removed and all other characters left intact.
It must ...
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Best Non-Code-Golf Challenge
Best challenge whose winning criteria did not include any code-golfing. King of the Hill, Fastest Code, etc. would be eligible. Proof Golf, atomic-code-golf, etc. are also included. Anything that's not the standard "shortest code length" is eligible.
I (@Bubbler) nominate Construct a pentagon avoiding compass use, asked by @Ad ...
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Shortlex predecessor code-golf code-challenge
Please note the special scoring for this challenge.
Task
Given a non-empty string made of a-z, output the string immediately before it in the shortlex order, which is described below.
Shortlex order
Shortlex order sorts strings by length, tiebroken by dictionary order. Dictionary order means we compare the ...
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Best Above-and-Beyond Answer
Repost of last year's
Every once in a while, an answer takes the challenge to the extreme. This prize will be awarded to an answer which went far beyond the expectations of the challenge. This could include a code golf answer that brute-forced/proved the shortest program in some language
a graphical-output popcon answer of ...
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Join by intersection code-golf string
Given a list of strings, output these strings joined by their largest intersecting parts. Your output has to be optimal. Strings have to be joined in the order given.
What is an intersection anyway?
Suppose you have two strings:
"abcbc" "bcbcd"
You extract all suffixes of the first string, as well as all prefixes of ...
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ASCII tree code-golf ascii-art
Task
Your task is to draw these beautiful oak trees:
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Pendulum Encoding code-golf array-manipulation sorting
Given an array as an input (which can be any acceptable/convenient format in your language), implement pendulum encoding.
How do I do that?
The current iteration index starts at 0.
If the iteration index is even, append the current item onto the output list.
If the iteration index is odd, prepend the ...
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Square Deltas code-golf sequence
Given an strictly positive integer n, output all numbers in the sequence up to the index n. For the current test cases of the current challenge numbers are one-indexed. However, other formats are allowed as default.
Base sequence
We start from this sequence:
1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,...
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Exploiting the controller in a King-of-the-Hill challenge
I'm surprised that this wasn't here before, but this answer found a loophole to exploit in the KotH problem that should really be sealed off. (The rules of the challenge at time of writing only forbade using code that modifies the controller or the other bots, so the bot in question returned NaN ...
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Most helpful Sandbox commenter
Rewards a kind soul who took the time and effort to read through challenges in the Sandbox and give helpful feedback.
(I guess a bounty here would be awarded to one of the winner's questions or answers of their choosing.)
Nominations
I nominate Adám for this award, as he is always willing to read through challenges and ...
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Best Explained Answer
Awarded to a user who explains a complex solution in the best way.
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Best Non-Code-Golf Answer
Best answer to a challenge whose winning criteria did not include any code-golfing. King of the Hill, Fastest Code, etc. would be eligible. Proof Golf, atomic-code-golf, etc. are also included. Anything that's not the standard "shortest code length" is eligible.
I (@Bubbler) nominate @Anders Kaseorg's answer to Construct a ...
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Most Unconventional Non-esoteric Language
Goes to a user who uses a language not normally associated with programming challenges.
Nominations
I (@RGS) nominate Arnauld for his work with JavaScript. Arnauld consistently posts in JS and consistently posts very competitive answers, more often than not with some really interesting mathematical touches.
I ...
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graphical-output code-golf geometry
Draw an American flag for any amount of states
The flag of the United States of America goes by many names. The Stars and Stripes. Old Glory. The Last Known Non-Erotic Usage Of The Verb 'To Spangle'.
It is also one of the few flags semi-regularly updated. The red and white stripes represent the 13 original states, but ...
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God is real . . . unless declared integer
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
