These questions can often be answered quite quickly. The flipside is that the less substancial "minimalist" questions may sometimes attract StackOverflow-ish answers that are frowned upon, because they're either code dumps without explanation, or "quickie" answers that don't really review the code. When that happens, it's possible that the question gets protected if the question is very active.

Zombie rating:

Zombie rating:

Zombie rating:

Your language tag isn't in the top 40 tags: add 1 zombie.

Your code heavily depends on obscure 3rd-party libraries or frameworks: add 2 zombies.

Your code can fly a rocket or perform heart surgery: add 3 zombies.

These questions can often be answered quite quickly. The flipside is that the less substantial "minimalist" questions may sometimes attract StackOverflow-ish answers that are frowned upon, because they're either code dumps without explanation, or "quickie" answers that don't really review the code. When that happens, it's possible that the question gets protected if the question is very active.

Zombie rating:

Zombie rating:

Zombie rating:

Your language tag isn't in the top 40 tags: add 1 zombie.

Your code heavily depends on obscure 3rd-party libraries or frameworks: add 2 zombies.

Your code can fly a rocket or perform heart surgery: add 3 zombies.

#How to NOT write a zombie.

###The Minimalist

Zombie rating:

###The Proverbial Review

Zombie rating:

###The Project Review Project

Zombie rating:

##Zombie Penalties

Your language tag isn't in the top 40 tags: add 1 zombie.

Your code heavily depends on obscure 3rd-party libraries or frameworks: add 2 zombies.

Your code can fly a rocket or perform heart surgery: add 3 zombies.

How to NOT write a zombie.

The Minimalist

Zombie rating:

The Proverbial Review

Zombie rating:

The Project Review Project

Zombie rating:

Zombie Penalties

Your language tag isn't in the top 40 tags: add 1 zombie.

Your code heavily depends on obscure 3rd-party libraries or frameworks: add 2 zombies.

Your code can fly a rocket or perform heart surgery: add 3 zombies.

These questions can often be answered quite quickly. The flipside is that the less substancial "minimalist" questions may sometimes attract StackOverflow-ish answers that are frowned upon, because they're either code dumps without explanation, or "quickie" answers that don't really review the code. When that happens, it's possible that the question gets protected if the question is very active.

These questions can often be answered quite quickly. The flipside is that the less substancial "minimalist" questions may sometimes attract StackOverflow-ish answers that are frowned upon, because they're either code dumps without explanation, or "quickie" answers that don't really review the code. When that happens, it's possible that the question gets protected if the question is very active.