Questions tagged [challenge-quality]
For questions that relate to the quality of challenges on the main site
37 questions
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How to post on this site?
First time posting on Meta, while being an absolute (probably) seasoned user here. I have been posting challenges here randomly when finding time based on finding and developing my personal curiosity....
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How can we get new users to use the sandbox properly?
The problem Often, when we get new users, this happens: they post their first few challenges, which receive negative feedback they are instructed to use the sandbox, which they do not long after (...
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Challenges with an oracle
There are many ideas of code-golf challenges out there that are abandoned because a part of them are just too hard to implement with a reasonable amount of effort. For instance, requiring to parse ...
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16 votes
2 answers
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How can we improve the quality of new users' challenges?
All stats given here are correct at the time of writing. I can't promise that they'll stay exactly correct for a significant amount of time (and they most likely won't), but I'd be surprised if the ...
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11 votes
1 answer
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How can I retroactively deal with rules that turned out to make a challenge uninteresting?
I created a couple challenges recently which I was hoping would be pretty interesting, but turned into something significantly less interesting due to an oversight or regrettable rule. In De-...
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4 votes
1 answer
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How to deal with an accidental chameleon challenge
What happened I was about to post Does base n have any Rotate-Left-Double numbers?. Kevin Cruijssen told me in the sandbox comment that he got a proof that significantly simplifies the problem. I ...
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21 votes
7 answers
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Challenge post-mortems
While to-be-posted challenges get feedback in the Sandbox (ideally), we don't usually reflect on challenges after they have run. And while issues and ambiguities in challenges do get pointed out, we ...
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9 votes
1 answer
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A simple, clean and modern challenge about palindromes
Status quo We currently have seventy-four questions tagged palindrome, but most of them contain a twist. As I see it, there are only two challenges about the basic palindrome string decision-problem. ...
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A challenge that comes with a judge program
EDIT: I simplified the challenge and posted it in the sandbox. Summary: python2/python3 compatible judge script that works on a solution's output (instead of fork/exec-ing the solution); users are ...
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3 votes
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List of Good Numeric Scoring Systems
I suggest that we should have a list of scoring functions. When there is only one variable in the score for example: Length of submission (code-golf) Portion of test cases passed (test-battery) ...
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12 votes
1 answer
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Should we have a new, improved matrix determinant challenge?
There is currently a challenge to compute the determinant of a matrix. However, it was written 5 years ago, before our current quality standards were established. It falls short of those standards in ...
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1 answer
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Should "Operations with lists" be broken up into individual challenges?
As it stands, Operations on lists is in a bit of a weird place. It could be considered a multi-part challenge with minimal interaction between the subchallenges, which aren't allowed, but is pointed ...
user45941
18 votes
3 answers
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Should we disallow non-observable requirements?
One of the more recent things to avoid that's coming up a lot is the use of non-observable requirements. The most common incarnations of this are things like "no hardcoding", "implement this algorithm"...
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For compression-related challenges, should we take steps to level the use of 7-bit and 8-bit character sets? [duplicate]
(Closely related in the original premise, but both the question and its answers go off in a different direction: this meta post.) Something I've noted in many challenges which are fundamentally about ...
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1 answer
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The broken window of "Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code"
Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code is our highest-voted question. It regularly inspires newcomers to pose similar challenges, which get heavily downvoted with the poster ...
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