Hi

Hello

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Heym just wanted to ask, how do you get so many good questions ?

(on PPCG)

Like you have only been on the site for 2 months, but your stats are super awesome and that's mostly due to your questions

Haha thanks.

I don't know, I guess I have a lot of novel ideas and I'm good at explaining them.

Yes they are all original, though some here and there may be inspired by other questions or programming problems I've done in the past.

Wow man. That's awesome

I also spend a lot of time on PPCG (mainly writing questions). A good question takes at least an hour to write properly.

Yeah . true.

And frankly, some are just low hanging fruit, like the one i just posted: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/38305/…

It didnt take much time to design the cards.

How do you get the ideas for such questions though ?

I really couldn't say. Like I said, some seem obvious. Something akin to the cards one would be "Draw ASCII Chess pieces" (which in fact I almost made, but then cards seemed easier).

Usually (especially for text based challenges) I fiddle around in notepad and try to make up a sequence or shape I haven't seen done before.

I see. So its a lot about spending more time and perspective change.

I guess. I DO usually try to come up with my own ideas rather than rearrange an existing math/programming problem. Then I can be sure I'm not about to make a duplicate, and others may enjoy the novelty.

So yeah, to keep fresh perspective sometimes I think of a random word like "radioactive" and think - half-life - half the particles decay - suppose we make that characters, and thus codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/37755/radioactive-quines was born.