Answer by Philippos for Definite policy about duplicate answers
Neither yes nor no, but: it dependsI completely agree with xnor's view in normal competition. People solve the challenge, get the same result, one is a little faster: why punish the slower one? I'm...
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Allow duplicate answersI think we shouldn't take action against duplicate submissions, even when the code is identical. We should assume good faith: the second submitter almost surely came up with the...
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What are duplicate answers?Well, that's a hard one to answer. There are some obvious cases, but a lot of the time it comes down to a judgement call. You have to ask yourself, "Does this add anything to...
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Every now and then, we get an answer flag the declares an answer a duplicate of another. So far, I haven't really acted on them – except for leaving a comment if the flagger hadn't done so already –...
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