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Is Apple Shortcuts allowed as a programming language?
Apple Shortcuts is a visual programming language (in my opinion), released in 2018 on iOS. I have read this answer, and while I have not implemented a prime number determiner in Apple Shortcuts, I ...
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What should happen if a post needs action, but the author is unable to do so?
Related, but less general
Sometimes, a question or answer will need to be improved or fixed in a way that is outside the scope of our rules on when editing is allowed. For example, a clarification may ...
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Should Scratch solutions be allowed to take list input through pre-populated variables?
Scratch has a list datatype, but lists can't be used as ordinary variables, and they can't be passed as arguments to user-defined procedures. The built-in functions which take lists use a dropdown ...
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2025: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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What custom badges do we potentially want?
The Stack Exchange team announced they might be working on giving sites the ability to add custom badges that can be manually awarded by moderators.
We are a different kind of site. So a lot of the ...
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Canonical answer to "My challenge has answers, how can it be unclear/low quality/unfun?"
A very common reaction to closed/downvoted questions is: "But it has answers. Clearly, the question must be fun/clear to some people. The rest of you are just haters ruining the fun for other ...
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On Rules, and the Good Luck I've been wished
Follow-up to On Rules, and the Mandate of Heaven.
On the linked post, I wrote:
When it will be apparent consensus is reached on this post, I will make another meta post discussion the result of this ...
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General Answer Information Requirements
When writing an answer to any type of challenge, what information must an answer include?
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Is the [polygon] tag really needed?
I noted there is only one question with the polygon tag, and is it closed. This suggests the tag is not really that useful, and it might be a good idea to remove the tag.
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When there are tags ...
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What if there are two conflicting consensuses?
First, the definition of consensus from here:
5 net votes and at least twice as many upvotes as downvotes.
Suppose a meta question has two conflicting answers that are both a consensus (score at ...
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On Rules, and the Mandate of Heaven
It's certainly no secret that our rules are a mess. In fact, a lot of our posts that create the rules for submissions and challenges mention this problem. This is bad for newcomers, who must sift ...
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Tag or name for "given N, output N+1" challenges?
Is there a name (and hence, tag) for this kind of challenge? Continue the spiral
That is, given an input which represents some step fn in a sequence, output fn+1?
(Obviously they require two tasks: ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #5 on Code Golf has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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Changing the language of a programming language
Some programming languages, like Scratch, have an option to change the underlying human language of the program. Thus code such as
define
say(direction
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...