Timeline for "The oracle was lying!", "Just stab them instead!" and other... 'creatively' unhelpful answers
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| S Mar 16, 2017 at 16:42 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.puzzling.stackexchange.com/ with https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| S Mar 16, 2017 at 16:42 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.puzzling.stackexchange.com/ with https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Jul 17, 2015 at 22:28 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | Related: Should mathematics questions really be on-topic here? This kind of answers is part of what makes this site such a laughingstock. | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 3:47 | history | edited | GentlePurpleRain | CC BY-SA 3.0 | grammar (one criterion, many criteria) |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 23:34 | comment | added | Damien H | Coughs Well, this is awkward... puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/3013/… | |
| Apr 15, 2015 at 15:20 | answer | added | Bob | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 8:13 | comment | added | Ole Tange | @Emrakul I thought that was obvious: Because people like the question and especially the creative answers. | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 8:06 | comment | added | user20 | @Ole So the question becomes, why did the question and its answers get so many upvotes? | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 8:03 | comment | added | Ole Tange | @РСТȢѸФХѾЦЧШЩЪЫЬѢѤЮѦѪѨѬѠѺѮѰѲѴ When I read the "correct" answer, it makes an assumption that is not given in the riddle. The same goes for a lot of the "useless" answers: They just make different assumptions. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 10:47 | comment | added | user66 | Just another question with a lot of useless answers: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/3451/… | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 1:23 | comment | added | warspyking | It's be ironic if someone's answered with one if those types... "Just wait for people to stop, then solve it." or "There aren't any questions like that! Problem solved!" | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 0:50 | comment | added | Penguino | There is also sometimes the issue of questions where there may be no exact answers and/or where a bit of outside the box thinking is part of the answer. Such as ..."X was found dead in situation y, how could this have happened?". These are not my favorite type but they are still valid puzzles, and for these the 'smart-ass' answer is sometimes the best. | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 17:21 | comment | added | d'alar'cop | I agree that questions and answers are quite a bit sloppier here than on any other SE I have seen. Frankly I see it part if what makes Puzzling different. It always more creativity and people even invent new puzzles too... like test running. It's not one-to-one. Although again I agree maybe it's a bit too sloppy. | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 11:40 | comment | added | Doorknob Mod | @Kevin Fair point. I think, however, that enumerating every single possible "loophole" is a task that would be much more difficult on Puzzling than on PPCG, if only because answers here are much more open-ended, as opposed to being limited only to code. | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 5:10 | comment | added | Kevin Mod | @Doorknob I was thinking duplicate of this question. | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 3:59 | history | edited | user20 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1228 characters in body |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 3:48 | comment | added | user20 | @Doorknob I considered that, actually, but I'm not sure it's a duplicate. I think the problem has grown significantly since then, and may be worth reconsidering to the point where we should be doing something more. Whether or not it's a duplicate (I'm not sure, either), I'll definitely edit in your question because it is, at the very least, important precedent. | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 3:45 | comment | added | Doorknob Mod | possible duplicate of meta.puzzling.stackexchange.com/q/1302/39? (Not closing because closing as a dup of my own post would seem a bit biased, but this seems to be asking essentially the same thing) | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 3:35 | history | asked | user20 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |