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What I'd like to do is to create some simple-ish interactive puzzles with Javascript/CSS to get some feedback on a couple of different ideas I've got.

Is there any chance we can get code snippets enabled on PSE? They're on SO already so shouldn't (?) take too much effort to enable on PSE. If not then I could always use JS Fiddle or something similar, it'd just be a lot easier for people to play around with if it were embedded into the question.

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    $\begingroup$ I'd personally be for this if we could restrict them to questions only, and not answers. $\endgroup$
    – user20
    Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 15:31
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    – Joe
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    $\begingroup$ +1 useful. But @Emrakul why not for answers? Sometimes a puzzle-solving script would be good to share. $\endgroup$
    – A E
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    $\begingroup$ @AE That makes sense, but I was thinking more about overlap with PPCG (i.e. questions that ask for code in answers might be better elsewhere) - I see your point, though $\endgroup$
    – user20
    Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 18:02

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This would be a very useful feature, and not hard to implement. In fact, it was already implemented and perfectly functional, it is just a matter to activate it.

Someone may argue that this could make us overlap too much with PPCG. I disagree:

  1. If someone post a PPCG question here, it is off-topic. Adding this feature would not change this fact.
  2. The presence or absence of this feature do not makes a PPCG question on-topic.

Someone may also argue that this feature invites some sort of abuse. Again, I disagree:

  1. If someone post a question containing javascript/css/whatever code and it is a valid puzzle, it really does not matters if this feature is available. But its availability just makes things easier.
  2. If someone post a question that abuses the code-snippet feature, it would probably already be a bad question regardless the presence or absence of this feature.

Further, if someone really needs code for a puzzle question or for an answer, he/she can already just go to jsfiddle or ideone and post a link without this feature, or simply copy-and-paste it in the question/answer and ask for people to run it. So, the absence of this feature is not stopping anyone, but the presence would only makes things easier.

I really see no real reason against it.

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