@ASCIIThenANSI No worries, we can tell you're excited :) do try to refrain from touching the older meta posts if the issue's already been resolved though
@Sp3000 @ASCIIThenANSI I think there's nothing wrong with answering old meta posts either, if you want provide a new/updated perspective. But if it's tagged with status-completed it's likely a futile effort.
One thing - I have a question I need the answer to on another Stack Exchange site. It's one of the less used ones, so I can't get enough attention. I don't have any reputation, but is there a way I can get some help?
@ASCIIThenANSI I would assume that on a less active site, your question should get more attention, since it doesn't drop off the front page as quickly.
@ProgramFOX No, I mean a last-resort problem room, for small sites. You ask a question, then if no one answers, you ask in your site's chat room. If no one answers still, you go to the 'last-resort' chat room I'm proposing.
You can always post a link in the site's chat room if nobody answers, but what would be the point of creating a last-resort chatroom? How would people ever see that one?
If nobody is in the site's chatroom, it's probably less likely that the last-resort chat will have people who can actually answer your question, so I'm not sure that's a good idea...
@Sp3000 But it would be for all sites. And I suppose it would get some posters and activity, and thus, attention. Then people who want to answer unanswered questions (for reputation or just to help) go there to see what they can answer, and eventually, someone gets helped.
Just to clarify, this chatroom (which I am dubbing End of the Road) if no one has answered your problem, despite posting it in chat rooms, and you need an answer.
I don't think it fills a niche. People who frequent PPCG ask their "hey I just thought of this" questions here. People who frequent Anime do the same in the Maid Cafe. Arqade uses The Bridge. What is your target audience?
What prompted this? I noticed you asked an off topic question on PPCG Meta. Did that somehow discourage you from asking it here in chat?
@Optimizer Allright, done reading. Turns out it was just a weird series of circumstances.
Everything except downvote and close would be better than doing nothing, provided the stats were not noticeably above 4 already. Anyway, your comment made me look like my choice was entirely wrong. I wonder who downvoted my proposal not giving me an explanation. I don't think the other suggestions were THAT bad. (Did I receive +1-1 on that?)
Okay, I give up.
The trolls either always select to restart or if you are at 100% they vote to ask or something stupid, reducing all your other stats.
Every time we managed to get full hearts, they ruined it. The simulation could have ended at 190!
What I suggest is to deny votes of people who...
@Rainbolt Everyone uses this proposed chatroom if they are at the end of the road, desperately seeking answers for questions they need answers to. My question about CS50 prevents me from going further in the course, and CS50 Stack Exchange appears to be dead.
I downvoted because of the stance the answer took on raiding, which I disagree with. You just removed that part of the answer without me even saying anything prior, so no big deal.
I take solace in the fact that even though my answer was the most heavily downvoted there, it was also the (tied-for) second most upvoted. I've never gotten a +27/-37 before.
@Rainbolt I am not sure now as it is a week old, but I really think that when I made the screenshot at 203 it was already a second iteration with full hearts. So, what you are saying is that the game doesn't end at four hearts but four and something, which is not visible, so you must carefully grow the invisible value?
@Rainbolt Really?? :O What's the point of competing with how many days it took to hatch it then? I haven't read the source code that thoroughly, but does it mean that the progress bar wasn't increased daily by a fixed amount but by the quality of your site? Never mind.. gotta go
@ASCIIThenANSI I think I have read that someone is putting the code online, allowing to play a private StackEgg. Try looking here (a quick search, haven't read) http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252451/we-liked-stackegg-let-the-fun-continue?lq=1
My best advice? Go look at some existing ones to see how they're set up and run. It's a bit of work, especially the first time. A single mistake/oversight can ruin it.
Look for loopholes, post to sandbox, look for more loopholes.
A New Kind of KOTH - Work with other bots
This is just an idea, let me know if it won't pan out well.
The year is 2015 (plus or minus a few thousand years). All the PPGC challenges have collapsed, with the wave of code-troll ambushes. All that remains are the bots, executing their small challeng...
(And any koth, just because there's always something to change there it seems)
@BrainSteel Did you really invent Quagmire? I don't feel like golfing it, but I thought it might be a fun project to do as an Android app; my son would probably like it.
Hey, here's something I came up with: Codemon was a small challenge, and I was thinking - what if someone made a similar challenge, where everyone moves on a map, and you make one monster to fight? Something like an arena.
@Geobits I think this 'new' challenge would not have so many problems. I wanted to do Codemon, but all the swapping/type/id everything was a little too much for my first try.
@trichoplax I think "@Optimizer the way to get starred is to go back to through the chat history and post something that Geobits said this time last year."
(he quoted a message from Geobits should above the message to you... although it wasn't from "this time last year")
@ASCIIThenANSI The problem with fixed char length challenges is that there's always a way to circumvent "no comments". Like long variable names. And more.
When editing a post, pressing Esc does the same thing as clicking the "cancel" link: it cancels the edit. However, when editing a comment, pressing Esc does nothing.
Could pressing Esc when editing a comment cancel that edit as well?
@ASCIIThenANSI My advice for any challenge writing: Reread your spec at least 4 times! Consider the language, grammar, formatting, and structure. Ask yourself if someone much dumber than you reading it would clearly understand all the rules and requirements. If not, revise and repeat.
Make a fighter, then have them battle
Well, I was browsing around KOTH one day. I found two little interesting challenges: Save the last bullet for yourself and Codémon, I choose you!. But what if we combined the two?
How your bot will work
Each match, your bot is assigned an opponent. It is r...
Make a fighter, then have them battle
Well, I was browsing around KOTH one day. I found two little interesting challenges: Save the last bullet for yourself and Codémon, I choose you!. But what if we combined the two?
How your bot will work
Each match, your bot is assigned an opponent. It is r...
Okay, I give up.
The trolls either always select to restart or if you are at 100% they vote to ask or something stupid, reducing all your other stats.
Every time we managed to get full hearts, they ruined it. The simulation could have ended at 190!
What I suggest is to deny votes of people who...
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When editing a post, pressing Esc does the same thing as clicking the "cancel" link: it cancels the edit. However, when editing a comment, pressing Esc does nothing.
Could pressing Esc when editing a comment cancel that edit as well?
