##A very emphatic "no"
A very emphatic "no"
This suggestion is a conglomeration of chameleon challenges (because the real challenge would not be solving the challenge, but picking the optimal category), bonuses in code golf (because the large number of sub-challenges to solve would dwarf the actual challenge, like with bonuses), and multi-part challenges (because each category would essentially be a challenge in of itself). As a result, it would be nigh-impossible to do well.
If people want to informally compare answers ("Yay, my submission has the best score out of all the submissions which use X strategy!"), that's fine. Allowing formal categories in challenges opens up many cans of worms.
As it stands, we require our challenges to have an objective winning criterion that selects exactly one submission as the winner. Introducing categories into challenges would cause them to have multiple winners. We need to have a discussion about whether or not we want to be able to have multiple winners before we can even consider allowing categories.
##A very emphatic "no"
This suggestion is a conglomeration of chameleon challenges (because the real challenge would not be solving the challenge, but picking the optimal category), bonuses in code golf (because the large number of sub-challenges to solve would dwarf the actual challenge, like with bonuses), and multi-part challenges (because each category would essentially be a challenge in of itself). As a result, it would be nigh-impossible to do well.
If people want to informally compare answers ("Yay, my submission has the best score out of all the submissions which use X strategy!"), that's fine. Allowing formal categories in challenges opens up many cans of worms.
As it stands, we require our challenges to have an objective winning criterion that selects exactly one submission as the winner. Introducing categories into challenges would cause them to have multiple winners. We need to have a discussion about whether or not we want to be able to have multiple winners before we can even consider allowing categories.
A very emphatic "no"
This suggestion is a conglomeration of chameleon challenges (because the real challenge would not be solving the challenge, but picking the optimal category), bonuses in code golf (because the large number of sub-challenges to solve would dwarf the actual challenge, like with bonuses), and multi-part challenges (because each category would essentially be a challenge in of itself). As a result, it would be nigh-impossible to do well.
If people want to informally compare answers ("Yay, my submission has the best score out of all the submissions which use X strategy!"), that's fine. Allowing formal categories in challenges opens up many cans of worms.
As it stands, we require our challenges to have an objective winning criterion that selects exactly one submission as the winner. Introducing categories into challenges would cause them to have multiple winners. We need to have a discussion about whether or not we want to be able to have multiple winners before we can even consider allowing categories.