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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

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List of bounties with no deadline

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Should I accept an answer? [duplicate]

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Where timing between outputs matters, does the solution need to account for buffering?

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Can I see a list of removed questions?

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Loopholes that are forbidden by default

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Do different ImageMagick tools count as their own languages?

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FAQ/code-challenge don't seem to match actual code challenge questions

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Default for Code Golf: Input/Output methods

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If there is “a winner for every language” in a code golf challenge, does competitiveness matter?

discussion rules new-users noncompeting

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“Voidhawk's well-explained answer was the first one here in APL”?

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Can we pass properties of the input as parameters? [duplicate]

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Scratch 2.0 is no longer considered a “free” language. Does this retroactively make cops-and-robbers cop answers in Scratch 2.0 non-competitive?

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Can I repost a challenge with different rules? [duplicate]

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Non-standard command line calls

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Are esolang design questions on topic?

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Can deleted answers be down-voted?

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Existance of known score but unknown exact code

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Is a regex answer valid if it gives the reciprocal of the required output? [duplicate]

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answered Feb 25 at 20:26 trichoplax 7,531

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Tags that should have references to standard loopholes, I/O standards, etc., do not

feature-request defaults tag-wikis hyperlinks

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Can we link canonical meta posts (e.g “what is a quine”, standard loopholes) more actively on the site?

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Community Promotion Ads — 2019

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Best of PPCG 2018 – Now Accepting Nominations!

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What is the community stance on posting a codegolf question just to answer it yourself?

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Should we start “reviving” older challenges?

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Best of PPCG 2018 — Call for Categories [duplicate]

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Should “A Multipurpose Quine” be reopened?

discussion specific-question closed-questions reopening

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Byte count for imports (or other things) not needed for definition, but for execution

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Problems Not Yet Challenged

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Remove [windows-system] tag

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How does the community work? [duplicate]

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What programming languages have been created by PPCG users?

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Can we raise the privilege levels?

discussion graduation privileges

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Things to avoid when writing challenges

discussion faq policy challenge-quality defaults

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You have reached your question limit

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Deleted question appears on review queue

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2018: a year in moderation

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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]

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modified Dec 26 '18 at 21:55 Dennis♦ 189k

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Change the use of the “Game” tag?

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answered Dec 25 '18 at 13:28 Dennis♦ 189k

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Can we expect out arguments to be allocated?

discussion output

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Which number formats are acceptable in output?

discussion answers defaults output

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Tips for King of the Hill challenges

discussion challenge-quality king-of-the-hill

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What happened to the memes page?

discussion deleted-questions

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What is happening to PPCG?

discussion new-users site-health

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Does linter golf require a specific interpreter to be a valid answer for golf?

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Should we change our name?

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If we find a programming language in the Library of Babel, can we use it?

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A proposal to combat Meta Bloat™: The Big Consensus Freeze

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modified Nov 25 '18 at 16:06 PyRulez 3,738

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