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7:34 AM

Q: Should we merge [tag:cryptograms] and [tag:encoded-message]

Surely cryptograms is the same as encoded-message. Should the encoded-message questions be merged into the cryptograms tag as cryptograms is the proper name for them?

discussion

6 hours later…

Joe Z.

1:24 PM

@randal'thor you're getting all the "easy" ones, though :P (fanatic, electorate, copy editor)

I still haven't gotten even one of those, lol

9 hours later…

rand al'thor

10:28 PM

@JoeZ. Well, you got your Populist for a 'silly' answer! :-) And we both got Reversals out of the troll question. Two Famous Questions is pretty impressive - the closest I've come is probably this:

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rand al'thor

10:41 PM

TIL that the most-downvoted Trusted Users on Puzzling are @warspyking followed by myself. No surprises there!

rand al'thor

11:01 PM

I have a few new thoughts on the "too broad" situation puzzles which I think will be worth a meta post, but not tonight. Think I've done enough on meta for one day!

@Doorknob Your background has gone purple! :-o

Is it in protest against this room not being renamed the Mauve Llama? ;)

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