Timeline for The Purpose and Rules of Puzzling
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| Nov 22, 2014 at 2:06 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | “If you ask a puzzle on math.SE or cs.SE or similar there is a good chance people will downvote it for not having a serious purpose” — is there? Can you point to examples? I don't follow Mathematics much, but I do follow Computer Science, and I don't recall questions being downvoted for being puzzle-type — but then I don't recall many puzzle-type questions. | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | Simd | @EnvisionAndDevelop I agree that if we can get what you describe in our treatment of riddles that would indeed be very positive. My concern was for the one off trick question that once you have seen the answer is no longer of any interest. These are somewhat ephemeral and so not ideally suited to the SE format | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 16:07 | comment | added | TheRubberDuck | "riddles don't themselves lend themselves very well to the format of SE": I disagree. Riddles (and more generally puzzles) that are thought-out and have a verifiable solution make great Q/A questions. So long as answerers cooperate, we can benefit from various answers explaining a single solution differently (e.g., one uses rigorous math, another uses intuitive real-world analogy, etc.) or answers that present alternate but verifiably fitting solutions. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 21:10 | history | answered | Simd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |