I often have trouble getting the typing box to pop up on the mobile app.
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I don't buy the answer for the Colours puzzle. War just seems so forced. It wouldn't make a good solution because it is temporal. Wouldn't we want something somewhat permanent as a solution?
But I think that comments on answer don't really need that, if you don't want to be spoiled, you don't read answer so why would read their small comments ^^
to be honest, I rarely see any topic getting much attention
we had "movies" and "literature" challenges and those had almost no puzzles (and some of the puzzles they did have were... lacking)
(sidenote: i would love to see good puzzles on those topics, but if we can't make that happen in a challenge, I don't see it happening on its own, unfortunately)
(also I know I'm biased but I think language is a perfectly interesting topic, and a couple of really good questions were made for the challenge)
yeah there is sort of an issue with the challenges in the sense that all they are is somebody going "hey guys make puzzles about X" and then people do (sometimes) and then ... somebody does the same thing about a different topic. there's no stakes here, no reward or anything.
It's getting increasingly difficult to care about this site when a) the SE devs are at best dismissive and more often outright assholes to us, b) there's a weird cutthroat atmosphere due to the way that SE sites work wrt questions/answers/voting/rep, c) there's no real positive reinforcement for doing an exceptional job, and d) any questions that could inspire actual creativity (having multiple valid answers, etc.) are explicitly disallowed
(and suggestions for cordoning off an area for them have been brushed off)
I don't really understand why question with multiple valid answers are not allowed : on Stack Overflow, if I ask something like "How can I find and delete a word in a text in java ?" there are multiple valid answers, and OP accept the one that fits the best his need.
that's the thing that kills me about the lateral thinking questions - yeah, they can have multiple valid answers, but a) usually a lot of the "valid" answers stretch credulity (rain came in through the window and flooded the place and the guy floated to the top!, etc) and b) there's always a clearly more satisfying correct answer intended by OP
like, it's unnecessary, and all you're doing is trying to make someone feel bad for writing a puzzle that they didn't consider every possible solution to
@Lordofdark that's a perfect example of a question with multiple good answers btw
(the 22 + 4 question you linked)
almost all of those answers were valid and interesting
and I straight up do not understand why that can't be OK
who is suffering from that? I want to meet the person who is experiencing actual real life distress over the fact that there are multiple satisfying answers to that question
because every time somebody suggests that we ease up on our definition of "too broad", somebody else always claims that Real, Actual Harm comes to people because of it, and that's uh pretty laughable on its face, but even giving that a little bit of leeway, I still don't see the issue. If there's a real problem, then that's literally why we have mods.
One day I was out taking a walk during my lunch and a good friend of mine ran up to me suddenly and shouted "nine!" at me and then pointed at his watch and ran off. Obligingly I looked at the time and saw that it was twenty-six minutes before one and I immediately understood.
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I don't understand that puzzle, and the use of that tag is wrong
oh also
I feel like """we""" could be nicer to newcomers. It's one thing to shut people's questions down without any kind of helpful comment when they've been here a while and should know better about certain things, but it's another when we do that to brand new people.
So it follows suit on all other SE sites, which is the problem.
Yeah, exactly, Matt.
I love the ones that just HAAAAVE to comment, so they do an answer, despite the site giving them tons of warnings that their answer's going to get deleted.
since questions are the lifeblood here, it would make more sense if there was a minimum rep for posting a puzzle. That would, however get rid of people who are not from here who post a real life puzzle
We could have a template "You've been awarded a rep-reward for posting a great question for the fortnightly topic! Please post a link to your question as an answer on the fortnightly topic meta post [link will go here] to collect your reward!" or something like that
Perhaps - but with that being a 3-day process, I don't, personally, imagine that people would get around to it.
Judging by how many bounties I see for people to answer a question, on this site that go for 4, 5, 6 days after the question has a checkmark, without the bounty awarded.
Another thing that's disappointing is how useless the review system is, in Steam, because of the massive number of idiots that upvote worthless reviews.
the vast majority of my in-game hours were spent in TF2 or Skyrim, but the games I've liked the most have all been (usually relatively short) indie games, and in some cases, "non-games"
@Lordofdark admittedly the only ES games I've actually spent time playing are skyrim and ESO, which makes me a bad person in the eyes of many gamers, but I've read enough about the rest of the franchise that I don't feel like I'm missing a lot of good gameplay
Also in battle, 2 options that are super cool : -you can tell in which order each hero is going to act. -anyone can defend a teammate, even for parrying 1-target enemy spells.
Actually, I'm still not done with this game. Still on the final chapter.
