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What's the difference between a riddle and a joke?
This is a fun site, but there are some lines of distinction that become confusing.
Like the difference between a riddle and a situation riddle. I lost a few points over that, having no way to ...
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Splitting a riddle across multiple questions
A discussion broke out in the comments to this riddle regarding splitting riddles into multiple parts. In this case QuyNguyen2013 had added hints to his first riddle and put them as new questions. ...
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Why did my answer get deleted?
I posted an answer on a question
and it got deleted. I would like to know who did it and what was wrong with my answer? The answer was
@Bulldogg6404 said that C is the only valid conclusion.
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Downvote Flood in my Account?
Several of my posts has gotten downvoted in the past 7 hours.
A partial concern is my rep, but that's very minor, my main reason here is if the system downvoted me or something.
About 9 questions/...
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Should we change or remove our existing off-topic close reason?
We have the ability as a community to add custom off-topic close reasons.
We actually have one existing one, but it hasn't been used in ages (at least as far as I've seen). This is its wording:
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statistics on activity on a given tag over time?
Is there a link to statistics on how much activity there has been on a given tag over time? E.g. monthly numbers of questions (or views of questions) carrying the tag "logic-puzzle", say?
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Just out of curiosity: Since when did answered questions come in the unanswered tab?
Is this a bug? Or are my eyes fooling me?
P.S. For those who didn't notice, an answered question is in the unanswered tab.
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Should mathematics questions really be on-topic here?
Item: A blanket for my baby snake
This is a math question. It's an interesting math question — so interesting that it is a research problem whose solution is still unknown.
And the top-scoring ...
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Opinion on puzzle-series tags
We have had several discussions on puzzle-series and common names in titles, the most recent one here.
Now, I would like to propose that we introduce series-xxx tags for puzzle series.
The main ...
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"Hot Network Questions" - can one find out which posts were featured?
Is it possible to find out which PuzzleSE posts were ever featured in the Hot Network Questions section?
(Obviously after they have been featured. Otherwise it is trivial!)
If not, that would be a ...
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Seeking a new tag
This question is motivated because of this question.
I've created the tag puzzle-logy for it, out of need, but it was subsequently removed by the moderators. I don't argue with that decision, nor was ...
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Can we make a short post here to showcase not so trivial formattings?
I'm regularly stuck with formatting when typing up questions or solutions. Having a brain like a holey pot I never can remember the necessary tags (the ones which are not in the simple/easy help.) ...
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Why doesn't the reputation tab at the top notify me if I earn a privilege?
In StackOverflow,whenever I earn a privilege, I see that the reputation tab(achievement tab) turns green and when I press it,shows "You have earned xxx privilege" like this:
Why doesn't such it ...
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Puzzling digest - How / where could this be done?
There is something nagging on my mind for some time now, which was again poked by
this recent question:
On Puzzling SE we're more and more creating a great collection of good, topically sorted puzzles,...
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"-2 days" in the "you have reached the question limit" page
Quoting a small part from the "you reached the question limit" page which appears when I press the Ask Question button:
It's been 0 days since you asked your last question. We ask that you wait -2 ...
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Puzzles which requires quite special knowledge
I was reminded of this puzzle: What is the "linguistically hardest" number less than $10^9$? , that is much more nice in Russian language and started to wonder - why not?
Hereby the ...
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On the posting of cryptic crossword clues as puzzles
EDIT: Please be aware that this question predates a time on Puzzling SE in which a lot of policies were re-discussed and re-thought. See also this post for historic context.
Recently, there have been ...
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Magic Trick Solving
Should this really be on topic? There is a beta site for "Magic":
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/67342/magic
The question that has broughtvup this meta discussion is on Puzzling right now,...
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Getting to business: How can Puzzling make the internet better?
xnor asked me in a comment:
Given the recognition that Puzzling is unusual in that challenges are not meant to solve a real-world issue, can you explain the role of being easy to find on Google? ...
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What is your view on the [open-ended] tag?
I recently made a new tag called open-ended which seems to work fine, but out of curiosity, what's the community's view on it?
open-ended
Used when the tagged puzzle is open ended to all solvers ...
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Thank you for downvoting poor challenge questions
I noticed that over the past few days, the community has gotten a lot more aggressive about downvoting poor challenge questions. I think this is what needs to happen and will eventually lead to a site ...
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What about a question calling for examples of a certain type of puzzle?
(Please see this question and comments on it for where this proposition originates.)
How would people feel about a question of the form 'What are some good examples of puzzles of type X?', inviting ...
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Can we do something about this?
The highest rated question on the site is an issue. How can we fight against lateral thinking puzzles when one of them is held up as an example?
Here's the link
While I agree that it's the best ...
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A question about puzzle books
I think the community at P.SE is an excellent crowd when one wants to find out good resources for puzzles (/riddles/...). However, as the site policy is rather strict on opinion based questions (which ...
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Please vote on whether to make [logic] a synonym of [logic-puzzle]
I'm not sure if a meta question is an appropriate way to advertise my suggested synonymisation, but there is a precedent.
Surely it's obvious that the tags [logic] and [logic-puzzle] should be ...
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How do we choose which answer to accept from a set of high quality answers?
I have recently posted a puzzle which was met with several excellent answers of roughly equivalent quality.
This lead me to look for guidelines on how to choose which answer to accept.
Should I favor ...
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I think I found a comment bug?
I recently posted a comment with 1 visible character. I could even do it with 0. I have a demo comment on this question to give you an idea of what I mean.
It exploits mathjax in order to use up ...
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The mysteriously missing question (2)
Folks,
There has been a murder. A question was just minding its business and it is now dead. What happened to it? "Who done it?"
There are no other clues. Just very mysterious.
Credit to Bozman ...
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Game Over - You are dead
TL;DR: Just read the question title.
I am with a deep feeling that this community is very unwelcome in SE and that trying to save it and make it work is fruitless.
The moderators came and tried to ...
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What do downvotes on challenge questions mean?
There's been some heated discussion about downvotes on challenge questions in chat and on downvoted questions. I wonder if this in part because people have different ideas about what downvotes mean, ...
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The issues surrounding puzzling.se
So, here yet again. We have had an erratic month rife with insults that are not needed any more at least. It appears we have had a break through, how this happened however can be disputed until the ...
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Let's get critical: Nov 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Puzzling Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Can we get Code Snippets?
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 ...
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Are puzzles and riddles welcome?
It is really a shame that this question was still not properly settled.
Are puzzles on-topic?
Are riddles on-topic?
Even if they are on-topic, are they welcome or just tolerated?
If they are not on-...
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What exactly is the point of lateral-thinking?
Not only does lateral-thinking bring in people who's so far out-of-the-box that they don't even know where it is, and answers that generally don't make sense. But it's just plain useless. Take a look ...
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Lateral Thinking -> Brainteaser
Since they're so much alike (See; What exactly is the point of lateral-thinking?) I suggested a tag not to long ago but it still didn't get much attention. So now I'm coming right out and begging for ...
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Questions from on-going contests
What do we do with questions from on-going contests? For example, this question is a 2014-15 USAMTS Round 3 problem. Should they be flagged for moderator attention?
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Do we want built-in chess features? [duplicate]
I found out that Chess.SE has a nice chess rendering feature - see an example here.
I also noticed that this issue has come up in the past as though it were a brand new idea - see here.
Is this ...
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Retract Close Vote?
I close voted a question recently and wish to take back, so an option in the "Close" menu should be "Retract vote". It would be a lot faster than flagging a mod. Is there already an option like this ...
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Challenge questions and post quality: How should we proceed?
As most of you have probably noticed, a meta question was posted a few days ago that some of you did not wholeheartedly agree with.
Now that I've secured the "understatement of the year" award, let's ...
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Can we get an easy, markdownish way to color text?
Recently, while posting a question, I realized that it would have been handy to be able to color-code some of the text in my post. I think we should have a way, using markdown, to do this easily. Only ...
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Can we make commenting the reason compulsory for down voting
I think there are many people around here who downvote questions and answers based on there mental state, to relieve their frustrations or because of personal hatred or something.
For example, I ...
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Where to put puzzle feedback?
I've been writing feedback for puzzles and wondering I should put it. I've been doing this in the comments (like on this question), as that's what feedback is: commentary on the puzzle, rather than an ...
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Can and should we "sandbox" new challenge posts?
A while back in this meta question Lembik suggested in his answer a Sandbox for new puzzle-challenge-questions.
I think this is an idea worth discussing and potentially voting on in a specific thread ...
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Puzzling.SE job ads?
OK, so a question was posted on Puzzling.SE which was basically a job ad from a publication which wanted someone to write puzzles for them.
It was immediately deleted, presumably job ads are in ...
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If riddles are on-topic, why did my questions get downvoted?
For example, this one had 1 upvote before it got downvoted. Did I post too fast, titles, etc or are riddles not allowed?
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Future vision of the community
In this recent thread,
Is it time for us to disallow challenge-only questions?
it seems that moderators have a very specific idea of what this community should be, with which a large portion of the ...
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'Lateral Thinking' is a poor excuse for a bad answer
Seriously, people here cannot use the same line "b-but it's lateral thinking" to support their own answers. If your answers makes no frickin' sense literally, see this answer that got plenty of ...
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Empuzzler: A user script for hiding comments and answers until you want to see them
I've created a user script that hides comments and answers on Puzzling.SE's main site by default, and reveals them only when you want them revealed.
I've done this because I'm the sort of person who ...
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Do we have or need a dictionary of puzzle terms?
This question was inspired by posting "Assumption Needed when Solving Puzzle".
I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to have a collection of typical terms used for puzzling (and on site). And if ...
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