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What assumptions can be made about the environment in Scratch?
It seems to be undisputed precedent for Scratch answers that only the code is counted when determining the bytes used for an answer (although, how to come up with the amount of bytes that the code ...
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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
This "sandbox" is a place where Code Golf users can get feedback on prospective challenges they wish to post to main. This is useful because writing a clear and fully specified challenge on ...
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Default for Code Golf: Input/Output methods
It looks like we have a consensus that we want certain defaults for the format which answers are expected in for code-golf. On that poll, the question arose twice, which input/output formats should be ...
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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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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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Default acceptable image I/O methods for image related challenges
I do not feel that the default general acceptable I/O methods sufficiently cover image-processing and graphical-output challenges. So I would like to poll.
What are the default acceptable I/O methods ...
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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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When it is and is not acceptable to edit someone else's post
TL;DR: In what circumstances is it ok (by CGCC and politeness standards) to edit directly a post (be it challenge, answer, sandbox question, etc), assuming the edit is done in good faith?
I know ...
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Should graphical-output challenges accept straight up image files by default?
I've often seen some questions tagged graphical-output and kolmogorov-complexity that have some answer being image files, and they are often disagreements in the comments.
examples:
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Should AI generated questions and or answers be banned?
Relevant discussion that inspired this question
Questions and answers (content) generated by AIs like LLMs (e.g ChatGPT, Google Bard, character.ai) are not prohibited on the StackExchange network by ...
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List of bounties with no deadline
This is a list of unofficial, deadline-less (hence not searchable) bounties offered by users on various challenges on the main site.
Disclaimer: There is no guarantee that the user will award the ...
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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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The many users of CGCC
What are the stories behind your username and avatar?
Some users' usernames and/or their avatars have a significance behind them. What about yours?
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