Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Code Puzzles: What (Not) To Do?
Here's a code. Can you crack it?
fw8904730983kf89023ncweamnfiope20tmi9b6m89ny327nery895mbi9tm0ei09x2e1m3y8n2
Good luck!
When a puzzle looks like this… AUGH.
I believe that the main purpose ...
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Puzzling Design Pitch - Congratulations, you're graduating!
I'm Stéphane, a senior product designer at Stack Exchange. First, I wanted to announce that this site is now starting the process of moving out of beta to become a fully-graduated site!
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Should we ban Deusovi from puzzle-solving?
Ah, what a day, sprinkled with joy and sorrow at the same time!
I just got up and online just to find that the master of puzzles has finally returned to the scene with some new and fresh input (here).
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New Site Design!
As you can see the new design just went live. Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
We have also themed the chat rooms and newsletter template for this site, and adjusted the ...
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So long, and thanks for all the herring!
I'm resigning as a moderator of Puzzling. I've got a few words and a whole lot of feelings, but I'll try to keep it short.
It's been a long and wonderful journey. I started moderating Puzzling when I ...
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What should the subjects of our fortnightly topic challenges be? (with updates!) [duplicate]
Update May 16, 2018: This post has been (almost entirely) inactive since the last fortnightly topic challenge almost a year ago. The Fortnightly Topic Challenge has now been rebooted (see duplicate ...
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The many-eyes effect
I want to alert puzzle writers to a potential cognitive bias I'll call the many-eyes effect. Many people try to solve your puzzle, but only those who succeed post. It's tempting to imagine the posters ...
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Should we disallow "capture the flag" puzzles where the user has to install software?
I'm a little concerned about this question, which involves analysing a Linux application that people can download from mediafire.com. In case it disappears, the essential parts are reproduced below:
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Congratulations Gareth! and the end of an era
Change is afoot! In the list of all users ranked by reputation.
I've been #1 in that list, the highest-reputation user on Puzzling SE, since early 2015. But it seems the time has finally come to give ...
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Thank you, Robert Cartaino
For those who don't know, the Director of Community Development at the Stack Exchange company, Mr Robert Cartaino, is no longer employed by Stack Exchange. Tributes are already flowing in on main meta ...
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One Weird Trick All Spammers Hate
Puzzling.SE hasn't really seen much spam in the past, but we've had just a bit of it recently. Since it hasn't come up before, the question of what to do about it hasn't come up either.
Using This ...
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Should we ask our new moderators to step back and take a more hands-off approach?
Anecdotally, I've been seeing a pattern since the community moderator elections that's bugging me.
Basically, it's that the new group of moderators (@Deusovi, @GentlePurpleRain, @Emrakul...since I'...
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Puzzling's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
(source: stackexchange.com)
They'll be installed as the moderator team shortly — ...
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A policy on plagiarism
A few of you may be wondering why nineteen questions just disappeared from the site. This meta post is meant to explain what just happened, and set a goal for how to handle similar situations in the ...
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Sharing and rewarding what went into making a good puzzle
I'd like to put forth an idea which I think could simultaneously address two heavily discussed topics on Puzzling.SE:-
Adding more content about puzzle creation itself (in addition to being a ...
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