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Comments on Can we have [popularity-contest]s?

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Can we have [popularity-contest]s?

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Just curious, but this might help other users, so I'm placing at Meta.

A popularity-contest is a non-object winning criteria challenge that is based on having the highest scored answer of the challenge. Basically, you can do the specific tasks in any way, and make the program a little something to gain more upvotes. Just a generic code-challenge that only focuses on scores.

Are popularity-contest challenges valid in Code Golf CD, or should we stick to other object-winning criterions?

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What does that even mean? (2 comments)
What does that even mean?
Lundin‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Not sure what a popularity contest is in this context. Do you mean a leader board based on vote score rather than characters used? Answers are already sorted by vote score by default, I believe.

General Sebast1an‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Lundin‭ Yep, that's popularity-contest. In fact, I edited it to answer your question.