The Nineteenth Byte

ASCII-only

12:01 AM

@MDXF aka vsl

Downgoat

^ probably you could actually do with command chain

MD XF

@ASCII-only vsl?

HyperNeutrino

@MDXF Vaccinated Seal Laughs

Anonymous

@flawr For the purpose of using black box functions as input for challenges, any side effects should be irrelevant. The function should be able to be treated as a pure function, modulo a few specific cases (like when an RNG is involved).

ppperry

Have you made any progress finding a solution to A000236?

HyperNeutrino

12:13 AM

Not really. I've only made myself more confused ._.

Destructible Lemon

hey, do you want to see a square root of minus garfield I am working on?

HyperNeutrino

I made a strange sequence that appears to return the input most of the time but for some primes returns a multiple of it. ._.

Conor O'Brien

@ASCII-only isn't it the summer? >.>

ASCII-only

@ConorO'Brien i live in upside down land remember

HyperNeutrino

@ASCII-only but to you, we're the ones who live in upside down land

upsidedown-ception o_O

Downgoat

12:27 AM

@HyperNeutrino so if I am upside-down in upside-down land to someone who lives in upside-downland am I technically right-side up or upside-down

HyperNeutrino

Neither. You are right-side left.

Downgoat

what does that even mean

HyperNeutrino

it doesn't

(idk either lol)

ppperry

"it doesn't mean?"

Aug 1 at 22:38, by ppperry

this is the danger of answer-chaining challenges

well, that was only one danger of answer-chaining challenges

the other one is that someone makes an answer that is very hard to continue the chain from.

Conor O'Brien

@ASCII-only oh. so you guys are off during decemberish?

HyperNeutrino

12:45 AM

@ppperry *cough* ;P

ppperry

this loophole isn't specific to this challenge

HyperNeutrino

yeah

totallyhuman

hi

i am currently drinking what i assumed was "tropical mango" juice

HyperNeutrino

@totallyhuman 你好

totallyhuman

but i have found that it contains no juice

HyperNeutrino

12:48 AM

lol

totallyhuman

whatsoever

i have been betrayed

HyperNeutrino

what does it contain then o0

totallyhuman

it's just vitamins stuffed in water

HyperNeutrino

:I then how does it taste like "tropical mango"

totallyhuman

it doesn't

HyperNeutrino

12:52 AM

lol

totallyhuman

it tastes like tangy water

HyperNeutrino

l_l well that sucks

totallyhuman

i don't know how else to describe it

HyperNeutrino

anyway sry gtg now o/

totallyhuman

bye

MD XF

12:55 AM

@HyperNeutrino ಠ_ಠ

totallyhuman

i.redditmedia.com/…

Destructible Lemon

well, if we're posting irrelevant images, can I be posting my garfield edit?

2

ETHproductions

Does anyone know if there's an algorithm for generating all unique (free) n-ominos?

Wow, I'm an idiot... for some reason I thought that the number of unique n-ominos was the n'th Catalan number

ppperry

1:11 AM

0

A: The Bowlers-Golfers Fraction War

CPython 3.6.2, 25984 bytes t=int().__sub__(int()==int()) t=t.__sub__(int().__sub__(t));t=t.__sub__(int().__sub__(t));t=t.__sub__(int().__sub__(t));t=t.__sub__(int().__sub__(t));t=t.__sub__(int().__sub__(t));t=int().__sub__(t).__sub__(int()==int()) d=__builtins__.__dict__;l=list(d); c=d[l[t]]((d,...

and, after golfing many other answers to that challenge, I posted my own ...

HyperNeutrino

ayy I made a comment exactly the comment length limit

xD

totallyhuman

1:33 AM

@DestructibleLemon ಠ_ಠ it's not even oneboxed and occasional images are fine from what i've seen

HyperNeutrino

As long as you're not doing large OT oneboxes it's usually fine. It's usually ignored also :P

Husnain Raza

1:45 AM

Hello

MD XF

o/

HyperNeutrino

o/

Husnain Raza

rip OEIS challenge :'(

HyperNeutrino

Progress on the next OEIS slow and unsteady. Uncertain of completion.

MD XF

I'm gonna change the subject. Does anyone think cheese is good?

HyperNeutrino

1:47 AM

it would be nice to be able to see a program that can compute the values regardless of how messy it is (as long as it's in a language I kind of understand); I would understand that over math explanations

@MDXF Surely someone in this world must.

MD XF

Also baby ducks are fluffy. Unless they are rubber

Husnain Raza

only need a program that works

HyperNeutrino

@MDXF 0/10 self promotion (/s xD)

MD XF

Ok *begins argument about invalid OEIS sequences* better?

No?

HyperNeutrino

Yes.

MD XF

1:49 AM

Let's talk about rubber ducks then

XD

Husnain Raza

The game of life Tetris thing :0

HyperNeutrino

that's even less possible

MD XF

No it's not xD

totallyhuman

:o Ö D:

MD XF

PhiNotPi is almost done on it

HyperNeutrino

1:50 AM

hey, this sequence has been computed. That challenge has not been completed.

> almost

MD XF

Wait the sequence has?!?

HyperNeutrino

completed thing vs. almost completed thing. which seems more possible?

MD XF

Then... why hasn't it been answered?

HyperNeutrino

@MDXF WELL SOMEONE MADE IT !!!111!!11! :P

totallyhuman

idk

MD XF

1:50 AM

@HyperNeutrino Ah yes

Can we just talk about ducks?

HyperNeutrino

(I just noticed how un-random my 11-ing is)

MD XF

pls?

HyperNeutrino

Well in that case I'll just go back to reading the papers. Fortunately they're not extremely long; only 4 and 5 pages.

MD XF

Ok

As long as we're not arguing about OEIS sequence A000236

...again

totallyhuman

i want to argue about ducks

MD XF

1:52 AM

yes pls

HyperNeutrino

How about we don't argue?

ETHproductions

@Downgoat This has probably been done before, but: I just sorta implemented func1 . func2 . func3 (x) syntax in JS :-D

MD XF

Unless there's an OEIS sequence about ducks

totallyhuman

why are there no more of giant duckies

MD XF

send some more to duck chat

HyperNeutrino

1:52 AM

oeis.org/search?q=ducks&language=english&go=Search

> Numbers n of initial person such that the n-th person survives in the duck-duck-goose game.

2

totallyhuman

@HyperNeutrino >_>

HyperNeutrino

?

Downgoat

@ETHproductions :O proxies?

HyperNeutrino

lol

totallyhuman

here

ETHproductions

1:53 AM

@Downgoat Right, so you have to pass each function you want to use this way through a proxy-making function

But still, it works :D

Downgoat

@totallyhuman oh hi mendeleev

lol

lol

aww yiss

@ETHproductions You could modify Function.prototype. But cool, share source?

@MDXF you need two 'w's in the "aww" for "aww yiss"

HyperNeutrino

1:54 AM

@MDXF 0/10 use this link

Why settle with JPEG quality 85? :P

Downgoat

Wait mdoifying function,protoypye wouldn't do anything

totallyhuman

D: cnn.com/travel/article/taiwan-giant-rubber-duck-deflates/…

ETHproductions

var makeFunctional = function(func) {
    return new Proxy (func, {
        get: function (target, name) {
            if (target.__proto__.hasOwnProperty(name) || !window.hasOwnProperty(name))
                return target[name];
            return makeFunctional(function(x){return window[name](func(x))});
        }
    });
}

var plus1 = makeFunctional(function(x){ return x+1; });
var times2 = makeFunctional(function(x){ return x*2; });
console.log(plus1 . times2 . plus1 (2)); // ((2 + 1) * 2) + 1 = 7

@Downgoat ^

HyperNeutrino

So... what was the purpose of the rubber duck? xD

totallyhuman

to duck around

MD XF

1:57 AM

Rubber Duck Debugging

For people who find rubber duck debugging to be a very effecti...

don't duck with my room

HyperNeutrino

ಠ_ಠ

totallyhuman

get it? get it? :P

MD XF

oh for my duck's sake

HyperNeutrino

totally not

relevant duck pun

MD XF

Guys

ppperry

2:00 AM

yes

MD XF

My search engine is so relevant

DUCK DUCK GO

HyperNeutrino

That's not a browser!

That's a search engine!

ppperry

It's a search engine

HyperNeutrino

ninja'd xD

MD XF

*writes browser named after ducks* don't duck with me

HyperNeutrino

2:01 AM

that's also my default search engine

Best thing to do on DDG when you have too much time: !ddg !ddg !ddg ... !ddg !ddg !ddg (search term)

ppperry

This has provided two examples that show that codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/133600/… is way oversimplified

MD XF

Now I'm gonna make a challenge based on printing duck ASCII-art

HyperNeutrino

@ppperry yup :P

ppperry

so

That challenge is hard for a computer to decide, anyway.

MD XF

Would a challenge replacing all instances of the f word with duck be considered a decision-problem?

ppperry

2:03 AM

er

no

"For challenges which involve deciding whether or not the input meets certain criteria, and outputting based on the state of a Boolean value, either truthy or falsy, representing that decision. "

HyperNeutrino

No. decision-problem is about determining if an input satisfies a condition.

MD XF

Oh yeah duh it's only truthy-falsy

HyperNeutrino

(ninja'd xD)

MD XF

I have forgotten that like five times XD

ETHproductions

@Downgoat Is there any way to make a proxy apply to all ~~functions~~ objects of a certain prototype?

New Sandboxed Posts

2:07 AM

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Implement a space-based golfer code-golf Some two-dimensional esolangs, such as Forked and some non-esolangs, such as Python, can sometimes require spaces before lines of code. This isn't very golfy. Your task is to make a tool to make these languages golfier. Also because I'm lazy and writing ...

totallyhuman

CMC: replace every word in string with duck

HyperNeutrino

@totallyhuman lambda s:'duck '*-~s.count(' ')

wait what's a word

totallyhuman

lambda s:' '.join(['duck']*len(s.split()))

oh ok then

nvm me

ppperry

@totallyhuman Fails for foo\nbar

(where \n is a literal newline)

HyperNeutrino

If a word is just [A-Za-z], then lambda s:re.sub('[A-Za-z]+','duck');import re

ppperry

2:10 AM

@HyperNeutrino Fails for input containing newlines

totallyhuman

a string is words split by spaces

there

HyperNeutrino

@ppperry Fails for anything containing non-word characters like !!#%$%&$^%*&$^@&

totallyhuman

quit over complicating CMC's :P

ppperry

er, what fails for things containing non-word characters

HyperNeutrino

my first solution

depends on the definition of a word

MD XF

2:11 AM

Prepares for downvotes

HyperNeutrino

which now that totallyhuman has specified, makes my solution valid

ppperry

no, it doesn't

your solution silently converts newlines to spaces

Downgoat

@ETHproductions Kinda sorta maybe idk brb checking

ppperry

import re;lambda a:re.sub("\w+",a,"duck")

MD XF

@MDXF ._. I expected it but an explanation would be nice

HyperNeutrino

2:14 AM

@MDXF Done

ppperry

Why hasn't the new-sandboxed-posts bot posted yet

HyperNeutrino

I needed to find all of the links

MD XF

Thank ya sir

HyperNeutrino

@ppperry It's not instantaneous :P

ppperry

oh

MD XF

2:14 AM

Yeah it would be a dupe

Darn

HyperNeutrino

lol

MD XF

Now I gotta think of a challenge that implements duck puns

HyperNeutrino

I upvoted your other recent though. That one looks fun

MD XF

:D

HyperNeutrino

I have no idea why I did but I must've been really bored cuz I just joined IPS.SE earlier and wrote an answer that's probably longer than any SE answer I've written so far ._.

totallyhuman

2:15 AM

since we're talkin about sandbox

eyes on this?

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Take me to your leader code-golf internet stack-exchange-api Have you ever found a good code-golf challenge to answer, answered it and then found out somebody posted a shorter solution in the same language? Challenge Write a program/function that takes a PPCG question ID and outputs a leade...

MD XF

@totallyhuman not excuse to self-promote :P

HyperNeutrino

anyway brb o/

Downgoat

@ETHproductions looks like it's not possible to change Function.prototype, but perhaps in other JS environments (e.g. node) it might be possible

totallyhuman

@MDXF this is actually encouraged :P

MD XF

@totallyhuman Yes ik I was kidding

Well if we're all doing encouraged self-promotion does anyone wanna contribute to Forked? increments contribution request counter to 5

Downgoat

2:18 AM

@ETHproductions I think might be possible if we can somehow change descriptor for Function.prototype as rn it is readonly

ETHproductions

I highly doubt that is possible, why else would they put it in readonly

Downgoat

so we don't do this :P

totallyhuman

just switch to haskell :P

ETHproductions

I guess the other option is to loop through all existing objects and all of their properties and set each function to a functionalfunction

Downgoat

we could try to do some really shady shit and create a fake Function which kinda sorta copiesish the prototype Object

ETHproductions

2:21 AM

Function={prototype:function(x){alert(x)}} works, weirdly

not sure if there's anything we can do with that

Downgoat

though I don't think that would modify existing functions' prototypes

ETHproductions

yeah

Downgoat

> Function('return 1 + 1').asdf
< "a"
> Function('return 1 + 1')()
< 2

I have the proxy returning a

doesn't affect existing functions though

ETHproductions

yeah, I know

that's what we'd need to get around

MD XF

@Okx MD XF language #1

TIL you can git clone repo wikis

Pavel

2:44 AM

@Downgoat How does the first one work?

I get undefined

HyperNeutrino

@Downgoat wait functions can be defined by source code? ._.

Pavel

@HyperNeutrino Yes.

HyperNeutrino

derp

I do seem to have noticed that printing a function that was defined in the code will print its source though

Pavel

Notice Function and not function

HyperNeutrino

yeah

from my experience tho defining a function and then printing it will print its source code lol

ETHproductions

2:52 AM

for (var key of Object.getOwnPropertyNames(window)) {
    if (!/Storage$/.test(key) && window[key] !== window && window[key] != null) {
        if (typeof window[key] === "function") {
            window[key] = makeFunctional(window[key]);
        }
    }
}

Number . String . RegExp (new Date()) // gave me /1501901543759/

This is fun :-)

HyperNeutrino

ooh this looks interesting

ETHproductions

Next step toward functional programming: make all prototype functions global (so instead of "abc".toUpperCase(), you can do toUpperCase("abc"))

Patrick Roberts

Just thought I'd throw this question out there to you expert golfers. Is there a meta post or any resource somewhere that has a list of more basic operations / functions that are used often within typical math / data manipulation code golfing challenges?

Step Hen

@PatrickRoberts just browse two or three golfing langs and take the common denominators

HyperNeutrino

@ETHproductions Is "abc".toUpperCase() equivalent to String.toUpperCase("abc")?

Patrick Roberts

3:02 AM

@StepHen That's a pretty good idea, thanks. Do you have any particular suggestions? I'm collecting ideas for extending JavaScript functionality, so anything oriented to Math / Array manipulation would probably be most helpful.

Step Hen

@PatrickRoberts Jelly, 05A1BE, etc

the common ones

ETHproductions

@HyperNeutrino It is, I guess. I didn't know that

Patrick Roberts

Alright, thanks

HyperNeutrino

I just guessed that from knowing how Python works :P

ETHproductions

It's not like that with all properties though

Date.prototype has a .getSeconds method, but Date does not

HyperNeutrino

3:04 AM

Ah okay.

btw I don't know what prototype is

Step Hen

@HyperNeutrino the class stuff

@HyperNeutrino it has methods and class vars

HyperNeutrino

ok

so is it the static stuff or the instance stuff

Step Hen

you can change any class at any time with class.prototype.<name>

@HyperNeutrino instance?

I think

HyperNeutrino

as in is it the stuff consistent with the class or does it change with every instance of the class

Step Hen

class itself

HyperNeutrino

3:08 AM

oh ok

Step Hen

Array.prototype.split = lets you change the split method

or you can add new methods to the array class

HyperNeutrino

That's really cool :D

Step Hen

yeah but it also means that you have to be careful :P

HyperNeutrino

this just gave me a reason to maybe use JS again

ETHproductions

Except Array.prototype doesn't have a split method :P

HyperNeutrino

3:09 AM

@StepHen Don't worry, I won't anyway.

Step Hen

@ETHproductions yeah well you know what I mean

@HyperNeutrino when I say that, I mean any JS code you touch could have overwritten any class's methods or properties

HyperNeutrino

In Python one of the things that annoys me is that you can't change the functions of built-in classes so you have to create wrappers

@StepHen Ah okay, I see.

And then there's Java where you can't change any operators :I Even reflection is not the most useful thing and it's really annoying

Step Hen

Yeah I really like how Python does the __ __ stuff with classes and operators

ETHproductions

@StepHen Then again, that's the best part: you can add one

Downgoat

3:24 AM

@ETHproductions bind op kinda sorta brings this

MD XF

3:39 AM

Guys have you seen this

1

A: Most efficient cubifier

Cubically, Score: 86.98 U3D1R3L1F3B1U1D3~:7+1(-1@3(-1%1)6:1+3111@6%1-31111+004@6:1+11111%6:1+45@6:1-1%6~:7+1)6 Try it online! Turns out, all you need is conditional loops, a face equal to 1, and consistent End-Of-Input behavior.

There goes 1000 rep

Wheat Wizard

4:51 AM

@MDXF You realized you bountied 100 rep and not 1000 right?

I mean you can't bounty 1000 at a time but you can bounty more that 100 at a time.

Otherwise we'll be here for 10 weeks

ASCII-only

6:43 AM

@MDXF not-s.tk?g137695 :D

also: new short ppcg thing just it isn't really short: not-s.tk?g

New Main Posts

codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/137707/…

Pavel

No onebox?

New Main Posts

7:05 AM

0

Q: Gcoeara Email Address

Challenge Given an email address, your task is to determine and print if it's valid or not. Condition for valid email A valid email address must be in the form: pqrs@gcoeara.com pqrs can be replaced by exactly 4 lowercase English letters. The domain (@gcoeara.com) must remain same for every ...

code-golf

Ian H.

9:07 AM

I have a question, how would you use the input on TIO in C# code? Is it even possible?

Erik the Outgolfer

11:01 AM

@NewMainPosts huh?

Destructible Lemon

11:20 AM

my sromg thing I'm working on

programmer5000

11:44 AM

Can I get feedback on this:

3

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

I'm looking for feedback, especially on the winning criterion. I just added a new winning criterion. Look at the "Winning" sections for the cops and robbers. code-challenge cops-and-robbers decision-problem Just Hangin' Find the input that hangs the program Cops: This is the cop'...

I just changed the winning criterion for both the cops and the robbers, and I want feedback on that.

Mr. Xcoder

@programmer5000 Taking a look rn

programmer5000

Thanks

Mr. Xcoder

@programmer5000 Highest score wins... What?!

Why?

Before your submission is cracked, your score is 0

@programmer5000 So if your answer is safe, you have no chance of winning?

@programmer5000 I suggest putting it as such: Highest Score wins. and Before your submission is cracked, your score is ∞.

Do you agree?

@Downgoat Do you think code review would kill me if I used i > 1 && (2..<i).map({i % $0}).filter({$0 == 0}).count == 0 for primality checking?

Yaaay, PPCG has exactly 8.4 k questions!

3

s/questions/challenges

programmer5000

12:09 PM

@Mr.Xcoder Sounds good

status-completed

Mr. Xcoder

@programmer5000 Looks good now.

Cannot wait to compete (if you post it before I'm off :))

that spoiler tho

SEJPM

12:29 PM

@HyperNeutrino I didn't even see / fully read / remember the OEIS answer chaining challenge :o

Step Hen

1:29 PM

@programmer5000 what's wrong with the usual CnR + code-golf for cops?

programmer5000

I just wanted something diffrent

PPCG has waay too much codegolf

SEJPM

@programmer5000 make some polyglot challenges? :p

New Main Posts

1:54 PM

0

Q: Just Hangin' (Cops)

Find the input that hangs the program This is the cops' post. The robber's post is here. Your challenge is to make a program that terminates on all inputs except one (or more)1. Please, don't "implement RSA" or anything mean to the robbers. Use obscure languages and features, not boring e...

code-challenge decision-problem cops-and-robbers

0

Q: Just Hangin' (Robbers)

Find the input that hangs the program This is the robbers' post. The cops' post is here. Your challenge is to find one or more input(s) that hangs a cop's program. You only need to find one input, and it doesn't need to be the desired one. Clarification: The only valid inputs are constant ...

code-challenge decision-problem cops-and-robbers

ASCII-only

@totallyhuman no more carrot spam

Pls

@programmer5000 because most other challenges are offtopic

Anonymous

2:11 PM

→ 5 messages moved to Trash

totallyhuman

> There's a possibility that every challenger could include a leaderboard. While I do not currently see any disadvantages to this, I'm not sure if the community would agree.

any thoughts?

Anonymous

@totallyhuman Context?

totallyhuman

6

Q: Do we need leaderboards on all challenges?

I noticed a bunch of edits showing up in the edits queue where the usual javascript leaderboard is added to challenges. Example Example I think the leaderboards are fine, but do we really need to add these to challenges that have been inactive for quite some while?

discussion

so i was wondering if, instead of people editing one in

the challenger included it in the first place

Anonymous

Yeah that's not a problem. The problem is a bunch of trivial edits bumping posts to the front page.

SEJPM

@totallyhuman how can a random potato challenge poster (like me) find this script?

ppperry

2:17 PM

@NewMainPosts As I commented in the sandbox, that challenge is a duplicate of codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/135365/…

totallyhuman

54

Q: Leaderboard Snippet

I've been using a stack snippet for a while to generate leaderboards for my simpler or more popular code golf challenges. I want to share the code for this snippet here so others can use it more easily as well. Feel free to put feature requests and bug reports in answers, or let me know in chat....

discussion stack-snippets scoring

totallyhuman

2:27 PM

can i get eyes on this?

ASCII-only

@totallyhuman ew web challenge

totallyhuman

:P

Wheat Wizard

4:54 PM

Yay I got bronze in discussion

MD XF

@WheatWizard No you have to double every time

I'm doing 100, 400, 500

slowly, so I don't lose privileges

Wheat Wizard

You don't have to double over 500

I've awarded 1000 rep bounties before ;)

Oh I see

I mistunderstood

My bad

@MDXF Wouldn't want to lose access to those site analytics right. ;P

New Main Posts

0

Q: print the minimum number of operations required to separate the coins

There are n blocks numbered from 0 to n-1 inclusive for each box i contains r[i] red coins b[i] blue coins and g[i] green coins.we need to separate the coins by their color. in each operation we can pick a single coin from some box and put it into another box. it is considered the coins are separ...

code-golf

MD XF

@WheatWizard 'course not :P

MD XF

5:35 PM

@totallyhuman I found a crack, do I post it or wait for someone else to?

totallyhuman

i've no idea

New Main Posts

-2

Q: "Hello, World!" (Cops' thread)

This is the cops' thread. The robbers' thread is here. Your challenge is to write a program or function that, with a certain input, prints the exact string Hello, World! and a newline. Capitalization, spacing and punctuation must be exact. Input may be taken via standard input, a file, or comma...

code-golf cops-and-robbers

-2

Q: "Hello, World!" (Robbers' thread)

This is the robbers' thread. The cops' thread is here. Your challenge is to take an uncracked submission from the cops' thread and find, for what input or inputs, the program will print Hello, World! and a newline. Capitalization, spacing, and punctuation must be exact. Please comment on the co...

code-golf cops-and-robbers

MD XF

Yeah yeah. For some reason, popularity in sandbox != popularity on main

ETHproductions

@Downgoat I added syntax for applying arguments to a function, so for x => x.map(z => z + 1).join("") you can now do map._(z => z + 1) . join._("")

Would it be better to just have the function postfixed with a _ (or maybe a $), like map_(z => z + 1) . join_("")?

DJMcMayhem

@MDXF IMO, you can't really use the sandbox to determine if the challenge is good. It's more for determining what problems it has, and how to make it better.

MD XF

5:39 PM

Well yeah but I didn't expect 4 sandbox upvotes to correlate to 4 main downvotes

DJMcMayhem

It's really good at catching things you hadn't thought of, but it isn't great at letting you know how well it will be received.

MD XF

Apparently so

@WheatWizard do you know if OPs are supposed to crack submissions?

'cause I'd already found it (link) but I didn't know if I should post it

Wheat Wizard

@MDXF Yeah its usually ok

MD XF

Darn!

DJMcMayhem

@MDXF I don't think it's terrible, but the biggest problem I see is just that the spec is short. Concise specs are good, but not at the risk of clarity, and C&R requires much more specification then normal. For example, my C&R is about 20 paragraphs long (each) with code examples. Your two together are 7, with no examples

MD XF

5:43 PM

Wow

Oh examples. Yeah that would've been a good idea

I guess I should've looked at more CnR posts, instead of just one well-received one

Dennis

@MDXF Why did you protect this question? It hadn't gotten any invalid answers lately afaict.

DJMcMayhem

The hardest thing about writing challenges is coming at it from the perspective of someone who doesn't know anything about your challenge

MD XF

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I thought that was grounds for protection. I was kinda surprised Community hadn't protected it

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Q: When should challenges be protected?

Users with 3,500 rep (or 15,000 if when we get a site-design) can protect challenges. This makes it so that users who have not earned 10 rep on the site can not answer. As a user with this privilege, I have no idea when it would be appropriate to use. This is because the idea of "protecting ques...

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