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Meta Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here?

I propose that the following is added as off-topic: Off-topic Questions with artificial requirements and no practical use, including code golf and code obfuscation. This also covers artificial hom...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2020-10-21T14:16:41Z (about 4 years ago)
I propose that the following is added as off-topic:

**Off-topic**

- Questions with artificial requirements and no practical use, including code golf and code obfuscation. This also covers artificial homework requirements that "ban" the use of certain common language features when writing the program.

There is a proposal for a separate code golf site [here](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/41993).

It would also make me happy if we could make questions such as "how to do division without the / operator" off-topic. These are common and unhelpful both for the OP and future readers. The site should focus on how to write high quality code using best practices.

Note: the intention is _not_ to ban "language-lawyer" types of questions (though such will need a language-lawyer tag). These questions are meaningful when understanding programming languages in-depth, and also for those writing compilers, parsers or standard libraries etc.