Unanswered Questions
15 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Sandbox instructions for new users
We now have a nifty new info-box to point new users to the Sandbox. Hooray!
But when a new user does go to the Sandbox for the first time, the instructions there don't give them much to work from to ...
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What's wrong with popularity contest?
Some time ago I asked a question 8 ought to become Infinity, which was closed as
"Questions without an objective primary winning criterion are off-topic, as they make it impossible to indisputably ...
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CGCC Blog Post #6: My First Impression on Code Golf Stack Exchange
How I got here
I saw a few sites of Stack Exchange elsewhere. Exactly where I forgot, but it made the first impression of Stack Overflow to me: they were indeed very sophisticated. I learned about ...
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Count question score toward tag badges
Related: Increase reputation awarded for questions
It has recently came to my attention that tag badges are only awarded based on answer votes. For a site like Stack Overflow, that makes sense, as ...
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Why is this question closed?
Write a java code to detect the JVM version was closed in error as part of the underhanded cleanup. It's obvious from the comment thread that it was never really an underhanded question, and that tag ...
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What are the "Notices" in this question's revision history?
As I was looking through the revision history on this question, I saw some strange things I haven't seen before. Here is a "transcript" of sorts (ignoring edits):
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What should you do in cases where you've got answers, but others think that the question is not a challenge?
See, for example, a question I asked earlier: Write the shortest code to generate a random number between 1 and x.
@Oberon said "I'm not a downvoter, but maybe it's because the question isn't much of ...
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Could we get some feedback on what needs to improve in this question?
This question has a few downvotes but no explanation yet. Although it's beyond me to answer it, I like that it exists and I'm looking forward to seeing answers to it. Could we discuss what about it is ...
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Fast and Golfiest Season 2 Looking for Advice
Season 2 is coming! Season 1 was fun and relatively well-received, but the main problem was that the scoring system is very broken. Hence I'm looking for advice about how to improve the system so that ...
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Should "A Multipurpose Quine" be reopened?
A Multipurpose Quine
This challenge was closed for the reason that it was unclear what the challenge was asking. The main reason was that the challenge required all outputted quines to not be ...
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Second iteration of a challenge
I wrote a challenge, I was concerned it would need some fine tuning, but was not able to get anyone on board to help me test. So I posted it to the main and it turned out while it was pretty fun it ...
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Way of salvaging "Two-zero-one-five puzzle" challenge?
The Two-zero-one-five puzzle was intended as a Kolmogorov-complexity code-golf challenge: the task is to generate and print arithmetic expressions for as many numbers between 0 and 100. Unfortunately, ...
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How could "Crash your favorite compiler" be edited to be on-topic?
I recently found the closed Crash your favorite compiler question and was wondering how a type of question like this could be changed to fit the requirements of a challenge question as outlined in the ...
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Why was my post put on hold?
Why was the shortest λ sort post put on hold? What is "unclear" about it? The only question raised (about church encodings) was promptly clarified in the post as soon as it was pointed.
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Is the new showcase a duplicate of the old one?
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/100928/26997 is currently closed as a duplicate of Showcase of Languages, which is currently locked.
The reasoning is that once the proposal here is applied to ...
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