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What are our specific abbreviations and terms?
See also Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms.
Abbreviations marked with a star (*) are chat specific.
ATO: Attempt This Online; a website similiar to TIO where newer versions ...
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How does this site work?
What does "Code Golf" mean?
Code golf, (Or Codegolf) as the name suggests, is the art of making programs that are as short as possible that complete a task.
What is "Code Golf & Coding ...
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I Don't Have Enough Reputation to Comment
Comments requiring reputation is an unfortunate situation, but it is (sadly) necessary to prevent comment spam. There is no manual override; the only way to post comments is to earn the 50 reputation ...
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Where to find an online testing environment for specific programming languages?
Attempt This Online
Note: I (pxeger) am the author and maintainer of ATO
ATO was originally conceived as a replacement for the increasingly out-of-date Try It Online.
You can find it at ...
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Suggestion/Edit for answers if user "Last seen more than X years ago"
You should post your new answer and link to the original.
It perfectly fine, even when the OP is active, to post your golf as a separate answer. You don't need any further reason to do so.
A full ...
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7 day chat suspension
Regarding that message
You must have no idea what the Nazis were/are or what they have done if you think calling someone a Nazi for deleting chat messages or handing out 30-minute suspensions is even ...
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Chat account suspended?
I have not had any suspensions over 30 minutes in the past month.
This isn't true.
There was completely no warning about it.
You were reminded of our rules and guidelines on multiple occasions, ...
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Can interpreter flags causing major language differences be considered different versions of the language?
Answered in order
Yes
They are different versions.
Maybe
It would depend upon the challenge in question. Some specify that major versions (e.g., Python 2 vs Python 3) are considered the same ...
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Welcome to Code Golf and Coding Challenges Stack Exchange!
Answering
Unlike most Stack Exchange sites, answers here are typically easier to write than questions. However, there are a few things that every answer needs to include, and a couple of criteria they ...
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chat suspension?
Workman or no Workman, you littered TNB with gibberish. One of your posts got flag-deleted, which results in an automatic 30 minute suspension.
The suspension will wear off in 10 minutes.
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Does the OP have to explicitly state the winning criteria?
Yes, the winning criterion needs to be specified in the challenge
First, tags like code-golf where the winning criterion is obvious in theory. You're right that it's probably not entirely necessary, ...
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Adding a link to Try It Online to existing answers
Technically speaking, you can, as one of the official reasons to edit an answer is to
▶ add related resources or links
That being said, here at Code Golf Stack Exchange, we're quite conservative ...
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What is too many sandboxed challenges?
Don't worry about clogging the sandbox
In fact, thank you for using it — I wish every new contributor did so!
Every once in a while, we have created a new sandbox because the old one simply got too ...
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Very long chat suspension for harmless joke
We've been over this before.
Long-term suspensions are rarely handed out because of a single message. However, you constantly succeed in lowering the signal-to-noise ratio. You have been told several ...
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Welcome to Code Golf and Coding Challenges Stack Exchange!
Asking
Asking good, high quality challenges is a key aspect of the site. Some users almost exclusively post challenges, and some prefer instead to only answer. However, asking is very different on ...
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How does this site work?
I would just like to add that while the code-golf in fact is a competition, it won't feel like one very much. It's more of showing off nice approaches to solving the challenge — there's only one ...
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Does the OP have to explicitly state the winning criteria?
No, as long as the winning criterion is already clear from the tags
Most challenges on PPCG are code-golf. A lot of distraction, duplication, and possibly inconsistency is caused by having to re-...
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Remove noncompeting status from all submissions
Please Don't
Correct me if I'm wrong, but how often do really old posts show up on the front page? Unless you keep editing them, not very often. So, now that the new decree has been set in place, let'...
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Welcome to Code Golf and Coding Challenges Stack Exchange!
Everything Else
Despite being primarily for challenges and solutions, there is still a lot more to the site. This post addresses some of the more common questions about aspects of the site aside from ...
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How To Filter Out Code-Golf tagged questions
Searching for posts without code golf
You can search for -[code-golf] to find all questions that do not have the code-golf tag.
Ignoring code-golf questions always
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Reopen my question that has several correct answers
Err... no.
You should work on improving your challenge first.
Your question is quite unclear, and fairly poorly formatted. By marking it as "On Hold", we signify to future users that challenges ...
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Chat Suspensions for Swearing
Different people find different things offensive. While I personally don't mind some mild swearing, others might. Remember that it takes only six users (or less, if one is a mod) out of all SE users ...
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2 downvotes + 1 upvote = 1 more reputation
Reddit karma is +1/-1. Why should SE rep be +10/-2?
In short, the voting and reputation structure are optimized for a Q/A site rather than a system that ranks popular opinions.
There is asymmetry in ...
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Why was my flag disputed on an invalid joke answer?
You used the wrong flag
"Not an answer" seems like the obvious thing to flag something like this as. It breaks the rules, it's not a valid answer. On our site the best course of action is ...
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Are there minimum age requirements for languages?
No (there are not)
We used to have a policy that answers with languages that were newer than the challenge could not be considered competing, but this requirement has since been removed since it was ...
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7 day chat suspension
You received a 7-day suspension because one of the mods saw your behavior and thought it was rude/inappropriate for respectful discourse. I say one of the mods, because us regular users don't know ...
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What does "Standard loopholes apply" mean?
Standard loopholes apply.
means that you cannot use anything forbidden by the standard loopholes. This is the default for every question whether you say it or not, but some users like to reiterate ...
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Is OK to post a challenge for a sandbox post with 0 votes but is 1 week old
Post Sandbox challenges when they're ready to be posted, not based on score or time
The reason score/time are recommended (e.g. wait a week, have a positive score etc.) is because these are usually ...
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I Don't Have Enough Reputation to Comment
Any user with 20 rep on their parent site can suggest an improvement to an answer by pinging the OP in chat and posting the suggestion there, or a link to a pastebin or something if it's long.
You ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible