Over at this question, the OP doesn't want to use an objective winning criterion like code brevity, but instead wants to accept the highest-voted answer. To me, that smells like a popularity popularity contest contest.
Personally, those two examples above are reason enough for me to never post a popularity contest. However, if someone should, against their better judgement, feel that such a contest has value, a [popularity-contest] tag would suffice to caution serious coders to stay away. It'd be like Parental Advisory, except in this case it's not a content-free advisory. :-)
Comments welcome.
On a similar train of thought: should popularity-contest questions be "strongly encouraged" to be community-wiki'd?
Over at this question, the OP doesn't want to use an objective winning criterion like code brevity, but instead wants to accept the highest-voted answer. To me, that smells like a popularity contest.
Personally, those two examples above are reason enough for me to never post a popularity contest. However, if someone should, against their better judgement, feel that such a contest has value, a [popularity-contest] tag would suffice to caution serious coders to stay away. It'd be like Parental Advisory, except in this case it's not a content-free advisory. :-)
Comments welcome.
On a similar train of thought: should popularity-contest questions be "strongly encouraged" to be community-wiki'd?
Over at this question, the OP doesn't want to use an objective winning criterion like code brevity, but instead wants to accept the highest-voted answer. To me, that smells like a popularity contest.
Personally, those two examples above are reason enough for me to never post a popularity contest. However, if someone should, against their better judgement, feel that such a contest has value, a [popularity-contest] tag would suffice to caution serious coders to stay away. It'd be like Parental Advisory, except in this case it's not a content-free advisory. :-)
Comments welcome.
On a similar train of thought: should popularity-contest questions be "strongly encouraged" to be community-wiki'd?
Over at this question this question, the OP doesn't want to use an objective winning criterion like code brevity, but instead wants to accept the highest-voted answer. To me, that smells like a popularity contest.
Personally, those two examples above are reason enough for me to never post a popularity contest. However, if someone should, against their better judgement, feel that such a contest has value, a [popularity-contest] tag would suffice to caution serious coders to stay away. It'd be like Parental Advisory, except in this case it's not a content-free advisory. :-)
Comments welcome.
On a similar train of thought: should popularity-contest questions be "strongly encouraged" to be community-wiki'd?
Over at this question, the OP doesn't want to use an objective winning criterion like code brevity, but instead wants to accept the highest-voted answer. To me, that smells like a popularity contest.
Personally, those two examples above are reason enough for me to never post a popularity contest. However, if someone should, against their better judgement, feel that such a contest has value, a [popularity-contest] tag would suffice to caution serious coders to stay away. It'd be like Parental Advisory, except in this case it's not a content-free advisory. :-)
Comments welcome.
On a similar train of thought: should popularity-contest questions be "strongly encouraged" to be community-wiki'd?
Over at this question, the OP doesn't want to use an objective winning criterion like code brevity, but instead wants to accept the highest-voted answer. To me, that smells like a popularity contest.
Personally, those two examples above are reason enough for me to never post a popularity contest. However, if someone should, against their better judgement, feel that such a contest has value, a [popularity-contest] tag would suffice to caution serious coders to stay away. It'd be like Parental Advisory, except in this case it's not a content-free advisory. :-)
Comments welcome.
On a similar train of thought: should popularity-contest questions be "strongly encouraged" to be community-wiki'd?
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