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Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

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Questions with artificial requirements that have no practical use, including code obfuscation and code golf Questions with no practical use can and have always existed in some way. I could be pro...

posted 4y ago by Razetime‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Razetime‭ · 2020-10-20T06:37:23Z (about 4 years ago)
 > Questions with artificial requirements that have no practical use, including code obfuscation and code golf

Questions with no practical use can and have always existed in some way. I could be programming anything as a hobby, and I could simply get rejected because my question "does not have a practical use" and has "artificial requirements".

I do agree that gamified questions shouldn't be allowed(coding challenges and the like), but if a person is asking for help with obfuscating code or doing something absolutely useless, it should still be fine as a general question, since it is about coding, after all.