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How do we handle standardizing things?

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Code golf, being about exploiting things, often brings about many questions about edge cases. Since we don't want each challenge to have to deal with all problems again and again, it makes sense to standardize some defaults for questions about various topics (including, but definitely not limited to, what's a valid answer, what are allowed I/O rules, what's a quine, a program, a language, etc).

Codidact has help topics, customizable by moderators, but we still need some way to create the standards in the first place.

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Meta gets a new tag, named "standards" (or "defaults"; if you have name suggestions, suggest them!), addable to questions by moderators.

Such meta questions discuss a single topic, with each answer being a separate suggestion. Depending on the type of question, either the best voted answer is the accepted standard (e.g. quine definition), or all answers above some certain threshold of votes (what specifically should that be?) is counted as a default (e.g. a single input or output rule, as there can be many).

Since it can be useful to post answers with the express intent of them being downvoted to signify that something is not acceptable, the answers on these questions shouldn't give reputation, if possible.

These posts could, afterwards, be linked in the help pages, tag descriptions, or wherever else applicable.

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Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 3 years ago

A question came up in another comment thread: do y'all want posts on meta to grant rep at all? It came that way out of the box but you're not required to keep that. If you want meta posts to grant rep but not these specific ones we can do that, but I wanted to ask if there was a broader change the community might want.

dzaima‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

hm, I guess it could make sense to just not get rep from meta answers at all. Don't know what's better though. I guess most posts are ones where votes on answers just mean public consensus, for which getting rep doesn't make sense.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 3 years ago

It's something the community should discuss explicitly, of course -- just raising the possibility. Meta activity is often community-building and community-curating activity and some feel that's worth rewarding. Maybe meta rep values should be different (but non-zero). Maybe meta upvotes should stay as they are but we shouldn't penalize downvotes. Lots of possibilities; what does the community want?