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Can we revisit our policy on answers that are not serious contenders?
I dislike our current stance on "serious contenders"
TL;DR: we don't make it clear enough that answers with self-imposed restrictions are valid
From my conversations with moderators, from ...
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Accepted
Should we change the question on the Tour page?
Yes, to Fibonacci function or sequence
The challenge is short, so will fit into the cropped view from the tour page, but is still a well specified and clear challenge
It's been consistently active ...
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Can we revisit our policy on answers that are not serious contenders?
My Perspective
This is not a complete answer, it's just offering my perspective. It leans towards suggesting action, but I'd rather let other people speak before we are done here. I'm putting it here ...
Wheat WizardMod
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Tour page summary - we're not a Q&A site
Code Golf Stack Exchange is a site for code golfers and coding challenge enthusiasts. It's built, maintained and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of sites. Unlike most other sites in ...
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Can we get a custom Tour page?
I don't know whether to post all my stuff in a single answer or as multiple, I'll just put everything here for now. Things in {braces} are my comments, not part of the text. Most of this is just ...
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Lack of obviousness about how to use this site
The Tour and Help Center only have very specific items/pages that can be customized. Besides that, not everybody reads them.
The points you mention are highlighted in the right sidebars of
All ...
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Clarifying "serious contender" in the help center
Proposed wording for Help Center
Make a serious effort towards optimizing for the winning criteria
within their chosen language.
In context, this would be:
All solutions to challenges should:
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5
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Should we change the question on the Tour page?
Yes, to The vanilla factorial challenge
When I was writing this challenge, I tried to make many of the implicit rules explicit, such as default I/O methods, standard loopholes, built-ins, time/memory ...
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Let's rewrite the help center's on-topic page
Current excerpt:
All questions on this site, whether a programming puzzle or a code golf, should have…
An objective primary winning criterion, so that it is possible to indisputably decide ...
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A Better Help Center
This is more a collection of comments, but too many to actually put them in comments.
I definitely think we need something like this, but we also need to make a link to such a site very prominent to ...
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Let's rewrite the help center's on-topic page
We should mention some of the most common standard loopholes which are no longer funny or give a link in the on-topic page. If the loopholes implicitly apply to every challenge-type question, then we ...
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Add to Sandbox or How to Ask
I went ahead and added the post to our community FAQ.
Let me know if you think it needs to be more prominently featured.
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How can we improve our help center?
How do I ask a good question?
All this information provided is just... wrong. It's vague enough to somewhat apply, but could do with rewording to stick closer to our How to Ask page, especially ...
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How can we improve our help center?
What does it mean when an answer is accepted?
There is no right answer in code-golf questions, which make up 85% of all questions. This page should also explain what acceptance means for non-code-golf ...
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Let's rewrite the help center's on-topic page
This is the first draft of a major edit to make this page more self-contained. My vision for the "On Topic" page is that visitors can read this page and leave with a pretty good idea of what we do ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible