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Proposal to lock the Language Showcase as historically significant
Problems I see with locking the Showcase
We have practically nowhere else to post what we can post on the showcase. You can always put them in the language's readme on GitHub, but I prefer the ...
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Proposal to lock the Language Showcase as historically significant
The showcase is part of a unique category of pop-cons that should be on topic.
Before I explain this, consider for a second why we banished code-trolling, underhanded and now are considering ...
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Change the stackexhange subdomain to "ppcg.stackexchange.com" and let the original redirect
Let's keep it as is
We've been Programming Puzzles & Code Golf, otherwise known as CodeGolf.SE, since our inception 5 years ago. Our name doesn't suit us perfectly, but it's part of our identity. ...
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19
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new badge: good timing
The purpose of (most) badges is to encourage a certain behaviour that is deemed good on SE. (There are a few exceptions, like Tumbleweed, and I'm pretty sure they'd go if the badge system was ...
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Proposal to lock the Language Showcase as historically significant
Closing this challenge is pointless even if out-of-scope
This challenge is still opened and…
…it still receives interesting answers showcasing new languages. I still receive upvotes semi-often on that ...
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13
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Move the sandbox to main
The Sandbox really does not belong on Main and should stay on Meta
Let me review the arguments made for moving the Sandbox to main (from the question):
Users with less than 5 reputation can still use ...
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Code Golf Scoreboards
No.
To have bots that autonomously make edits is annoying, intrusive, and error-prone. If someone wants to have a Stack Snippet, he/she should edit it in manually.
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Can we have a different Put On Hold message?
That's a standard message
Certain close messages are standard across all Stack Exchange sites and cannot be changed on a per-site basis. People who vote to close as unclear should specify in comments ...
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12
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Code kata should be added to Programming Puzzles & Code Golf
Code Katas are a great idea in general, but I don't see how they fit into this community. The main requirement for every challenge posted here is that it has to have an objective winning criterion. ...
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Can we change the Programming Puzzles & Code Golf community image?
Only the beta communities have this sort of image
was once true, but as the number of sites which are graduating has grown, a backlog has built up. The icon will be changed as part of a cohesive ...
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Proposal to lock the Language Showcase as historically significant
No, don't close it, don't lock it
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Unless there are severe quality issues, don't let bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo get in the way of a challenge that many people are clearly ...
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11
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Why isn't there default syntax highlighting for code?
AFAIK there is no default syntax highlighting on SO. Instead a default syntax highlighting can be set for each tag. Almost every question on SO has a language-specific tag and those come with the ...
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10
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Accepted
Leaderboard function
Leaderboards are often custom-made to fit the requirements of a challenge, so it doesn't make sense for there to be a single function to accomplish this task.
Martin Büttner made a leaderboard ...
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10
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Couldn't there be more specific close reasons?
Unclear what you're asking means just that: it is unclear what you are asking for in your challenge spec. In almost all cases, further details should be left by the close voters as comments.
While ...
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Accepted
A Standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript Parser/Interpreter
Perhaps, HTML, CSS and JavaScript have the most number of interpreters.
No arguments there. The vast amounts of inconsistencies between different browsers, or even different versions of the same ...
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9
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A homework-question tag to weed out questions
No
A homework tag would most definitely not weed out off-topic questions. Instead it would look like evidence that homework questions are on-topic.
Clearly my homework question is on-topic. There's ...
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8
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Code Golf Scoreboards
Make the template a featured meta post status-declined
That way it would appear on the right side next to the link to the sandbox. That would make it visible. Anyone who wants it can just click on it,...
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8
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Can we retire the Sandbox?
Do not retire the sandbox
Retiring the sandbox does not solve a sufficient number of problems to make the work associated with it worthwhile. The only problem that we know that this will fix is ...
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8
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Accepted
Search by language?
Searching for [code-golf] is:answer "J" seems to provide good results. And if you want explanations, ...
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7
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Remove MathJax support on meta
Yes, but try to fix MathJax ASAP
Obviously, why have MathJax on meta (and sandbox) if it is really not going to help us on the real site? It provides no help, and can confuse users new to the sandbox....
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7
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Stop replacing my tabs with four spaces
As per this feature request: Stop expanding tabs into four spaces
	
Note that this only works if you put the code within a ...
7
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Accepted
Accepting answers in challenges
This idea has many problems.
It will be very difficult to write a fool-proof program to detect the shortest valid answer. This also seems rather abuse prone to me. What if the challenge has a ...
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7
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Accepted
In-line code block
Comment markdown allows you to escape backticks in inline code. So,
`Array(100).fill\`abc\`.join\`|\``
results in
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Metadata for answers?
Interesting idea, but not worth inclusion
For starters, as-is, this would be adding something like 2KiB of stuff to each answer. Not only does that cause less room for the meat of the answer (which ...
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7
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Accepted
Sorting answers
There unfortunately isn't a built-in way to sort or filter by language. It's a feature we'd like to have, but's it's surely too niche for Stack Exchange to implement.
That said, we have some ...
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Make [codegolf] a synonym for [code-golf]
to avoid confusion errors
I'm not allowed to create this by myself because the difference is the dash only
Looks like the system is doing its job. Specifically, the message you should be getting ...
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Accepted
New tag proposal - anarchy
On scoring by ratio to shortest code
I like the philosophy here that you're competing relative to your language, but I don't see it working. The idea seems to be based on assumptions from Anarchy ...
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6
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Why isn't there default syntax highlighting for code?
I would consider having lang-default active by default on the challenge tags actively harmful to submissions. It doesn't always make sense and can in some cases ...
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6
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Code Golf Scoreboards
No
Whether a challenge contains a leaderboard should be up to the challenge author; it should not be inserted automatically. If a challenge author wants one, they can use Martin's template. Not all ...
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