Timeline for Standard Loopholes
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/ with https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 19:12 | comment | added | question_asker | The irony with the linked answer is that it got most of its upvotes in its original, pre-edit form, i.e., a much less "jokey" and still accurate answer. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 21:31 | comment | added | Corey Ogburn | @GOTO0 I don't blame the asker. I think it's unreasonable for every puzzle to be ironclad against non-sense answers. There might have been particular phrasings that could have prevented it from happening to your question, but ultimately it's on the users who submit these types of answers. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 21:27 | comment | added | GOTO 0 | Ahem... I am the OP of the post linked here, and after rereading my puzzle carefully I must recognize that my phrasing was not the most fortunate; the choice of some relevant details for the puzzle should have been more careful. Rather than that spoil-the-fun answers what I'd really appreciate are suggestions on how to improve my puzzles. After all, this site is about puzzle solving and puzzle creation, so any answer that points out weaknesses in a puzzle and suggestions on how to improve it should be welcome IMHO. Glad that you raised the concern. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 18:23 | comment | added | user20 | Also see "The oracle was lying!" - very similar problem of just adding details to hand-wave parts of a puzzle away. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 18:06 | comment | added | Corey Ogburn | The bad news is that the upvotes do roll in. The answer rises above the rest as if it were legitimate. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 17:39 | comment | added | Joe | The good news is that normally, that type of answer is someone being smart for upvotes, not the OP saying that's correct :) | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 17:26 | history | answered | Corey Ogburn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |