This makes it easy to see that a checking algorithm optimally searches region first because there will always be less cells to check than orthogonally.
@zx8754 That is probably question more easily answered by the moderator in question, but I§d guess that the answer here and some of the discussions linked there might shed some light on this" Why was my non-big-list question made community wiki?
> Questions that are typically or at least often made CW include Career advice questions, Questions regarding style (e.g., in writing papers), Big-list questions, especially if they quantify over all mathematical fields.
I am not sure that would really discourage posting answers. However, it seems that MO is different in using CW from the rest of network. (Or at least from the official recommendations given on Meta Stack Exchange and Stack Exchange blog.)
But you are right that CW works effectively as a reputation denial mechanism.
