I'm actually leaning towards the third style. The accepted answer should be the one that I, as challenge author, subjectively deem "best" -- just like every single other site on the network.
@NewMetaPosts As a former owner of chatrooms on various platforms the users in question would have been banned perhaps even without the first warning if this kind of thing happened in my rooms. The drama caused simply by discussing whether or not there is an issue isn't worth it and there are plenty of other members who don't need to be talked to on the daily.
I dunno. Sometimes it's nice on the technical sites to know that if nothing else, the solution worked for the OP. Which is the most common use on those.
On a related note, for folks who ask challenges, do you work out a solution in code for your own challenges? I very rarely do -- I think only once or twice out of the two dozen I've written, and that's because I needed to generate some examples.
@Poke Indeed. I moderate a chatroom for a 40k user platform elsewhere in the internet and our rules would have resulted in multiple bans. Eventually the user(s) would have been muted for a longer period of time. But in the SE context, reflecting on the whole thing is more common before taking action.
I think it'd be more beneficial to have a winner per language, since it's hard to outcompete certain languages when using other ones. But that'd probably just get overly complex, and not every question has multiple answers for the same language anyway.
@Geobits Yeah it is a great substitute for voting on quiet posts. I think there's been discussion on MSE of allowing votes to override which is displayed first if the top answer has more than twice the accepted answer, which seems like a nice compromise
I have seen (or gotten, can't remember) feedback on other SE sites saying, "Hey, OP, you really should accept an answer." So I've been diligent about accepting on my questions here. But it seems like the culture here is a bit different.
@quartata Kickmutes are incremental in duration, but they don't really solve long-term problems. And as you said yourself, an actual ban would affect the user on all sites.
@TimmyD Sometimes. I'd recommend it, though. In hindsight, one of my questions when I didn't ended up with too strict of an output format. I would've been more lenient if I'd had to write a version myself first.
> The kick-mute length increases with each instance: initially they will be kicked for 1 minute, then 5 minutes, then 30 minutes. After three kicks from the room, an automatic moderator flag is raised.
Ok, so to summarize the feedback on whether to accept an answer: 1) there is no Yes or No consensus, but 2) accepting one isn't really necessary, and 3) since the shortest is my own, that militates slightly in favor of not accepting it.
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC I think you are grossly overestimating how "fancy" it really is. It mostly consists of extra buttons below posts and a diamond button next to your reputation
So I've just finished taking over and editing Stewie Griffin's Sandbox post on what is now called the aesthetically pleasing divisor tree and I'm looking for bugs in the spec. Can you guys have a look? meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/10092/47581
@roomowners You were given the authority to kick users. Given how much complaining there has been recently, some users have clearly worn their welcome thin, and do not deserve any more warnings. By now, trashing/kicking/muting is not inappropriate.
Starring a message is about the same as upvoting a challenge or answer as far as I'm concerned. If I find it interesting or it makes me smile, I might just star it.
@DJMcMayhem Given that the first kick-mute is always for one minute, if a user had been kicked already, you most likely wouldn't know it. It doesn't announce it to the room or anything.
@DJMcMayhem It may not always be obvious to you when a user is kicked from the room, or suspended from chat network wide. The lack of announcement means chat can just continue smoothly without anyone having to think about it but the room owners.
I'm trying to watch a CNN stream for the debate later, but can't help but laugh at the medical commercials. I mean it's like 10% "we'll help" and 90% "you'll probably die". The latter why some android people are still smiling in the camera. This is quit hilarious.
Having spend some time on this site I have come to enjoy things being as short as possible. That may be the reason why I'm recently kind of offended by strings containing the same characters more than once. Your job is to write a function or program which condenses a given string according to the...
Ah right, our two largest islands are shared with other countries, and the rest of list between ID, GB and NZ goes, Sumatra, Great Britain, Sulawesi, South Island, Java, North Island
@BetaDecay I don't know how many users you were checking and how often, but I can confirm that a number of users were kicked and/or suspended and the room is a much more pleasant place than it could be
Attempt to Google Translate "Programming Puzzles and Code Golf" to Korean just gives a transliteration into Hangul. I get a similar result with Japanese.
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Actually, I think Nice + is for increasing the niceness of a process, which means lowering its priority so it gives up CPU cycles to other, less nice processes.
According to my research, just counting the Indonesian parts of the islands gives the list (between ID, UK, and NZ): Kalimantan, Sumatra, Western Papua, Great Britain, Sulawesi, South Island, Java, North Island.
If you count the islands and don't separate by country, only the top three change: New Guinea (aka Papua), Borneo (Indonesian part: Kalimantan), Sumatra
