Cory Taylor
2003-01-14 06:19:01 |
problem acceptance comments
I like the way the problems are currently submitted. It provides great opportunity for other great puzzlers to take a look at (and possibly correct or add to) your problems before being broadcast to the world. My suggestion though, is that while in acceptance phase, someone who has seen the puzzle before, or has other such advantages, is certainly able to post, I think that the same comments in the live area are inappropriate. To illistrate my point requires a bit of blame throwing, for which I apologize. I submitted a puzzle about the word "facetiously", and got a great addition to the problem from a ranking member, which I added to the solution (and credited). Then the same poster repeats the comment in the live section, when its clear that this was a puzzle they'd seen before. My opinion here is that that was unfortunate because it a)prevents others from actually doing the puzzle and b)makes me look like an idiot for not knowing the complete answer to my own puzzle.
To restate, I certainly did not mean this as fingerpointing, but just needed to illustrate my point. I have a huge respect for people in this world who can view "quirky" personality traits (like loving puzzles) proudly, and this extends to all of the common posters here. |
friedlinguini
2003-01-14 06:51:59 |
Re: problem acceptance comments
As the unnamed fingerpointee, let me first say no offense is taken, and no apology is needed.
As to the merits of my posting part of the answer in the comments section, I might not have made the comment if I had known that you had credited me by name in the solution. I have no way of seeing the solution you wrote up. I marked my comment as a solution (there isn't really an icon for a partial solution) and also titled my comment appropriately, so I don't think that I have ruined the discussion for anybody who didn't want to know the answer.
It might have been inappropriate for me to post a comment based on some discussion that occurred during the acceptance phase with other people. However, both the comment during acceptance and the comment in the general problem discussion were solely my own contributions, and were made in different contexts (one was in response to the original 'and possibly unique' part of the problem, and the other was just a part of the solution). I don't think offering insight into a problem in one forum should preclude me from offering it in another, especially when they are geared toward different audiences.
Anybody who saw my comment during the acceptance stage already knows what I had to say. To anyone who sees it now, it's just an ordinary comment. If my name is in the solution to the problem, perhaps the easiest solution is just to take it out. |
