Code Golf - TopAnswers

Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4

Yes I wouldn't expect it to do so because I edited directly on the database to permanently redact so it's not visible in the history either — I'm not particularly worried if other people see it too, as long as it's people who actually know me, so I think I'm safe :)

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas

Thanks. That addresses my concerns. (By the way, your email address didn't black out for me until I refreshed the page; that *might* have been coincidental timing, but  it might also be a bug.)

Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4

replied

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas

I've sent you an email.

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas

Got it.

Jack Douglas

if you let me know when you've got that down I'll blot it out

Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4

can you email ████@███████████████████████

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas

I'm not on Twitter. I do have a Fediverse account, but apart from that no social media.

Jack Douglas

or I could create a private room here on TA we could chat in

Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4

are you on Twitter? otherwise my email is faily easy to find online (or if you can't I'll post it in here and then delete the message)

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas

How do I do that?

Jack Douglas

@wizzwizz4 Can you DM me so we can discuss — as you say the legal bits are complicated by local variations

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas

If they're above the age for their member state's GDPR implementation (e.g. 13 for the UK), is that okay?

wizzwizz4

I wrote up my reasons for thinking the GDPR said that, but it was long.

wizzwizz4

I did some reading of the GDPR, and whilst I'm **not** a lawyer, I'm fairly sure that, for TopAnswers, an “if I am under 16, I have parental consent to create this account” checkbox (or, perhaps, piece of text) should be enough to comply – if even that is necessary.  
My vague recollections of [somebody else talking about COPPA](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/338076) say that, since the site isn't attractive to children, a “Don't ask, don't tell” policy would work.

wizzwizz4 replying to Jack Douglas

Some of them are not. If I stop them posting it, would that be okay?

Jack Douglas

e.g. in comments or posts — anything that can identify a person makes everything they post PII

Jack Douglas

although we don't collect PII, we can't stop people posting it

Jack Douglas replying to wizzwizz4

Totally fine if they are 16 or over

wizzwizz4

Obviously they wouldn't be sharing PII – TopAnswers' authentication system makes this unnecessary – so there shouldn't be any legal trouble; I just don't want a repeat of [Eternal September](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September).

wizzwizz4

I'm planning to use TopAnswers material in a programming club, which might result in a dozen or so new users (many children). Is this okay?

topnush

thanks!

Adám replying to topnush

Click [Post] then click the post type drop down.

topnush

how can I see a list of post types?

topnush replying to Adám

oh I see. I didn't know about post types

Adám replying to topnush

No, it is a post type.

topnush

I don't see a fastest-code/algorithm tag

Adám replying to Jack Douglas

Sure, but it doesn't really look that that's an intrinsic part. Maybe time for a site name change?

Adám replying to topnush

If phrased as a competition or as asking for tips to implement algorithmically fast code, then yes.

topnush

is that on topic?

topnush

what about a question like https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/132144/edit-distance-where-a-substitution-only-costs-the-first-time ?

Adám replying to hola-hula

So, some competitive programming is allowed, but time-based contests is a bad fit for this site.

Jack Douglas

Isn't it usually with a time limit?

Jack Douglas

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Adám replying to hola-hula

What exactly do you mean by "competitive programming"?

hola-hula

Hi folks! Do you consider questions for competitive programming?

Monica

Thanks -- that's what I thought I remembered, so I figured I'd play it safe and use a reply. :-)

Jack Douglas replying to Monica

thanks, it doesn't but replying does :)

Monica replying to Jack Douglas

Courtesy ping ^^^.  (Not really a reply but I didn't know if @-ing you would actually ping when you weren't showing in the sidebar.)

Monica

Hello.  Some folks recently poked an old proposal on Codidact for a code-golf community.  Six months ago when someone brought it up we said no, TA is doing that already and we're not going to compete.  It's come up again; some of the new folks didn't know about TA and we sent them here, but there seems to be sentiment for having communities on *both* platforms.  I wanted to point y'all to the post, which (somewhere down the page) links to a Discord channel with more discussion. https://meta.codidact.com/questions/41993

Jack Douglas replying to Lyxal

I only see it once, so it must have been a glitch, probably [this one](https://github.com/topanswers/topanswers/issues/82)!

Lyxal

But it went through twice

Lyxal

I swear I only wrote one message

Lyxal

Also, why did that post twice?

Lyxal replying to Jack Douglas

thanks Jack!

Lyxal

Wait why can I star things twice?

Adám replying to razetime

TA displays much more trust in its users than certain other competing sites. If someone starts abusing markdown for disruptive purposes, you can always flag.

Jack Douglas

on dba.se for example it is pretty useful to be able to post tables in chat

Jack Douglas replying to razetime

that's a good question I suppose — you can use the full markdown syntax in chat and we didn't see any reason to restrict it

razetime

# why are we allowed to use headings in chat