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1:32 AM

@ChrisJesterYoung The problem is that even those problems attract a few answers. That appears to be reason enough not to delete them

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Chris Jester-Young

3:38 AM

@Joey Damn it. :-P

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Jeff Atwood

8:56 AM

Q: On "interactive" answers and other special conditions

Interactive languages (and related issues) have afflicted me with a bunch of gripes regarding character count and program testing. Clarifying these should help coders in other languages like Mathematica and dc with similar issues. (And will also shut me up about it!) How much action on the user...

I have no idea how to answer that.. anyone want to assist? :)

9:26 AM

I'll drop my opinions in :)

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Shog9

4:59 PM

Saw this migrated from SO:

Q: Code Chess: Fibonacci Sequence

Building upon the proven success of Code Golf, I would like to introduce Code Chess. Unlike Code Golf, which strives for concision, Code Chess will strive for cleverness. Can you create a clever or unexpected Fibonacci generator? Your code must print or return either the nth Fibonacci number o...

fibonacci code-chess

IIRC, it was... a bit of a joke on SO. Kinda hard to objectively rate "cleverness", although that certainly figures into voting on golf answers.

So what's the feeling on CG toward subjective conditions on puzzle questions?

I probably won't like it as much as straight code golf (not objective enough), hence not answer myself, but there seems to be a few funny answers in there

dmckee

5:31 PM

@Shog9 I wish they hadn't done that. It has a bajiliion votes not because it's a good question, but because it featured on SO (with its huge user base), and triggereed the whole inclusionist--deletionist thing (just look at the comment thread).

Shog9

@JB Like it said... Was a bit of a joke.

@dmckee My preference would be deletion, but if you want to keep it around for historical interest perhaps lock it...

dmckee

6:04 PM

@Shog9 I want to delete it too. The metric is ill-stated, the problem is frankly boring, it has some highly voted answers that I would classify as "uninteresting tricks", and it's score is out of proportion to the site.

But there are a couple of clever and interesting solutions.

Shog9

6:23 PM

If it sets a bad precedent for your site, do a few good answers offset the host of lousy ones?

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