The Nineteenth Byte

I hope this does not become the norm.

I game the system by attempting to maximize this: # of NiceQuestionBadge / # of QuestionsAsked

@vzn I've just looked and you have to go to the 16th highest voted question to find the first with a half-decent spec. If I received a specification as poor as some of the highest voted ones here at work I'd be sorely tempted to tell my boss to stuff his job where the sun doesn't shine.

says @vzn

It's their right to say so. And saying so doesn't make it real and thus true

I just exaggerated an example of lying on the inernet

@vzn When playing almost any MMORPG, you usually receive tons of lovely comments regarding your mom and such.

_ is class name. Wow, 136 upvotes.

I looked at his answers. They seem rather simple.

Even if he's lying, it's his right to :P This is internet.

I'm almost sure Doorknob lies, but who knows...

@luserdroog His name is actually Robert');DROP TABLE Students;--

@vzn If someone asks you to stop using excessive emphasis in your chat message, it would be nice if you would do so

github.com/PPCG-Codeclub

@vzn I've said this before, but could you please use capital letters and punctuation in your post? Reading an entire post that consists of two sentences and no capital letters, with & scattered all over the place, is extremely annoying and difficult. Could you at least spell out the word "and"?

@Malachi Oh no!!! Bummer. I almost got that badge for CGSE but I broke my streak for some stupid reason, and I lost my motivation to try again.

Yeah, the reactionary re-openers are something of a problem.

@PeterTaylor Disallowing all future [popularity-contest] questions and deleting all [code-trolling] questions and that tag would be a step in the right direction, I think.

@xfix Even more worrying is that 3 people have voted to reopen it. I think last December was our Eternal September and we'll never recover a culture of questions which have clear specifications and objective winning criteria.

It's not that fun Googling / Looking up every single line

@vzn What do you mean? I'm pretty sure that any attempt to complain about this site on SO would be closed as off-topic within 5 minutes.

I study physics, thats where)

The winning move is the move that forces the other to lose?

@Rusher Language-specific challenges are pretty heavily frowned-upon. Don't do it unless you have a very good reason to.

@Rusher Edited my post now. The community team reads our meta from time to time. With enough community support, I feel there'd be enough weight for the community team to take action.

@ChrisJester-Young I really like the idea of a sandbox.codegolf.SE

We should get a MC group together from the people that sit around in this chat room. That way I can spend less time complaining about sandboxes and more time building sand castles

I see Milo changed their avatar slightly to differ from TheDoctor :P

that seems to be a new fad - need beta testers and funding for your Mac port? put it on Humble and get both

That's definitely a candidate for the FAQ: choosing your question tag 101

Right. There's a difference between an easy question and a bad question. Trivial tasks can sometimes be interesting, they're just a lot harder to write to make them interesting. Especially for new users, finding the "accepted" format for questions can be challenging at first.

Difficulty can be relative to the tool chosen. A site full of nothing but hard questions would be a site where no one ever takes a challenge as an opportunity to learn the rudiments of a new language.

@JonathanVanMatre Contact me when you manage to convince Wolfram to give you the source :)

The "don't keep duplicates around" policy is a StackExchange-wide thing. That's why it's got its own close reason text. As I've said elsewhere recently, if you want to attract attention to an old question then posting a new answer is a much better way than posting a duplicate of the question.

It says nothing about duplicates that we HAVEN'T done recently

cv-pls codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/23754/…

No one else has had difficulty understanding that 'It will be upvoted...' does not mean 'It will be upvoted by one person...'. Further down in the question it says 'When people agree that it is good, they will upvote it here in the sandbox.' Maybe you were in as much of a rush reading the question as you were in trying to get your question out of the sandbox as soon as possible.

My personal criteria for downvotes is much like Jan's. Breaking the rules or not even attempting to golf on golf questions. Since the Standard “loopholes” which are no longer funny meta question, I've been using those as reasons for downvotes too. In all cases I think I need to make sure I leave a comment explaining my downvote so that the user in question can fix it.

In case of useless whitespace I usually just comment

I'm prejudiced against word.

@hosch250 There are some people who will upvote any crap that anyone posts. :(

Ever since I saw that one tableflip comment someone posted on a BF answer, I want to make an esolang based entirely on Japanese emoji

@Victor not "fun" so much as "trivial and duplicate"...

Yeah, our discussion in meta came to the conclusion that answers that are not your own work should be made community wiki and properly attributed to the author

@TheDoctor I found it, codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/6638/nhahtdh

happy new UTC day! :P

I propose a vote of congratulations to user

He earned the Civic Duty badge without earning a single point himself: codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/1834/user