Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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On Rules, and the Good Luck I've been wished
Follow-up to On Rules, and the Mandate of Heaven.
On the linked post, I wrote:
When it will be apparent consensus is reached on this post, I will make another meta post discussion the result of this ...
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General Answer Information Requirements
When writing an answer to any type of challenge, what information must an answer include?
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Is the [polygon] tag really needed?
I noted there is only one question with the polygon tag, and is it closed. This suggests the tag is not really that useful, and it might be a good idea to remove the tag.
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When there are tags ...
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What if there are two conflicting consensuses?
First, the definition of consensus from here:
5 net votes and at least twice as many upvotes as downvotes.
Suppose a meta question has two conflicting answers that are both a consensus (score at ...
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On Rules, and the Mandate of Heaven
It's certainly no secret that our rules are a mess. In fact, a lot of our posts that create the rules for submissions and challenges mention this problem. This is bad for newcomers, who must sift ...
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Tag or name for "given N, output N+1" challenges?
Is there a name (and hence, tag) for this kind of challenge? Continue the spiral
That is, given an input which represents some step fn in a sequence, output fn+1?
(Obviously they require two tasks: ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #5 on Code Golf has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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Changing the language of a programming language
Some programming languages, like Scratch, have an option to change the underlying human language of the program. Thus code such as
define
say(direction
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Merging the remaining tag synonyms
We've got 4 tags on main that have synonyms, but are currently pending merging with their synonyms. The end goal of tag synonyms is, eventually, to merge them, and so, after a few years, I think it's ...
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Finally resolving the proposed FAQ posts
A year ago, after resolving the meta FAQ bloat, I said
For the three faq-proposed questions, as well as potentially converting important policy questions into faq, refer to a soon-to-be posted meta ...
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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Code Golf Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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What happened to Jo King?
If I go to the moderators tab, I don't see Jo King any more:
They used to be a moderator here, but now they're not. What happened?
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This old underhanded question not closed or locked
Speaking of underhanded questions, I wonder how this one managed to evade the closed/locks that all others had faced:
Pathological Sorting
I thought underhanded stuff was off-topic and closed or ...
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On [underhanded], [code-trolling] and [obfuscation]
Required reading:
The state of the underhanded tag
Has underhanded been getting too much like code-trolling?
The state of the popularity contest tag
And the motivation for this discussion of course: ...