@cairdcoinheringaahing Read the meta post.

@user202729 I’ve read it. I‘m still not sure I understand the issue though

in the post, Bubbler says „ I'm worried about this winning criterion because it permits many "winners"“, but I don’t get how it permits multiple winners. The solution that has a lower score (I.e. is strictly better than any other solution) wins, no?

@cairdcoinheringaahing Answer X wins if no other solution strictly beats X, so if you have X=10/20 and Y=20/10, both are "winning" because X doesn't beat Y and Y doesn't beat X

Then if someone posts Z=15/15, all three of X, Y, Z are winning now

Howdy everyone!

@Bubbler Do you have any problem with the "parametrizable" argument? (comment on the meta post)

@user202729 Parametrizable might be a problem, since (assuming the parametrization involves distributing cost over two measures) it implies a "winning spectrum" of answers. It's different from Moby Dick because a parametrizable answer there just means there would be one optimal answer using the strategy or algorithm (or multiple answers with the same optimal score).

I'm leaning towards more permissive route though, as it's still something to beat for a new answer, be it a different parametrizable answer or a more targeted answer where one measure is fixed/bounded

@Bubbler I still don't see how that's different to a normal code-golf challenge, where, for example, 2 Jelly answers are the same length, and the shortest or all the answers?

@cairdcoinheringaahing Two Jelly answers of equal length are equally good, we can all agree on it. Are the X, Y, and Z in my example all equally good? Maybe not.

@Bubbler If they all have the same score, then yes, they are equally good. That's how we define "good" solutions, by their score

But with the proposed criterion, we have answers with various scores, all of which are declared winners just because it is impossible to say good or bad.

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You've been a member for 4 months now.

So, uh, your username is a big lie

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@Bubbler but it’s not impossible to say if they‘re good or bad. The winning criteria for a specific challenge is what makes an answer good or bad (I.e if I post a winning answer for a KOTH to a code golf, it’s a „bad“ answer for the code golf, but „good“ for the KOTH) and so if multiple answers get a score of 30 through different methods (10/20, 30/0, 15/15 etc.) they are all equal in terms of how „good“ they are