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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: Jamalized
Originator: Jamal ♦ (actually, apparently me)
Cultural Height: All over CR (see this chat transcript search)
Background: Jamal being a frantic editor. And he's fast. So fast, we're ...
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: Java vs. JAVA
Originator: Jamal(?) (to be determined)
Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor (as usual), but also in various comments scattered across meta.
Background: Question with the word JAVA (...
35
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: Monking
Originator: Morwenn
Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor
Background: A morning greeting to the Monkey doing his monkey-business, in other words: monking
Examples: A small chat search
...
34
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Best of Code Review 2014
Best of Code Review 2014 - Lots of Laughs category: Answer that makes the best use of humor to illustrate a point.
31
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Name: Overly long acronyms
Originator: Simon André Forsberg with this message
Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor
Background: IWNPFETTOLAI (I will not provide further explanation than this overly long ...
31
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2014: What a ride!
Code Review Graduated
Official SE "Decision made" date: Sept 22 2014
Announcement "Going Public" date: Sept 30, 2014
Graduation applied (Privs/Colours) date: T.B.D.
In large part ...
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31
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A friendly challenge!
The title says "A friendly challenge", but really, what this is is a duel. For honor and glory. There is no possible good outcome to a duel. PPCG is going to lose. Then you'll be out for revenge a ...
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30
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Best of Code Review 2014
Best of Code Review 2014 - Exterminator category: Answer that points out the most interesting obscure bug in the original code
30
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Accepted
April 2017 Community Challenge
Simulate a Multi-Way Intersection
This was actually a project I had to do in college with PLC's. The idea is to simulate a four-way (or other intersection) stop-light, each light should be ...
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29
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Accepted
June 2016 Community Challenge
Chutes (snakes1) & Ladders
When I was a child, the board-game "Chutes & Ladders" really grew my hatred for anything random.
The board is 10 x 10. The object of the game is to get your piece ...
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Should we stay opted-in for Winter Bash 2016?
It's not simply tradition, it's part of the community's culture. We're one of the few SE sites known for actually liking fun™. Let's keep it that way. Let the Winterbash games commence!
May the odds ...
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27
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: LOL - AutoStar
Originator: Mat's Mug / Jamal
Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor
Background: "lol" somehow got targeted at this point here (the first starred lol):
retailcoder: lol (darn, ...
27
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Accepted
Let the CR Games begin!
Content posted to Stack Exchange websites is under the Creative Commons license. Specifically, code posted to Stack Overflow and Code Golf are available for use, ..... and abuse!
I suggest we take on ...
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26
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Best of Code Review 2014
Best of Code Review 2014 - Best Title category: The question with the best title. (If the title was later added by someone else, be sure to credit the user who edited the title.)
26
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Should we bring back the fun?
Zombie Hunting Season
The old memes pretty much all happened during the Great Revival, during which we equated unanswered questions with zombies, and votes/answers with ammunition.
The site ...
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25
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: Yet another linked-list (also nooooooooo)
Originator: skiwi
Cultural Height: The apparent popularity of linked list implementations
Background: The site has received a lot of linked list ...
25
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Best of Code Review 2014
Best of Code Review 2014 - Night and Day category: The most dramatic improvement (nominate both the question with the most hopeless code and the answer that cleans it up the best)
25
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Accepted
April 2015 Community Challenge
Re-Nominating this one, because I think it's a fun little challenge.
https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3786/41243
Implement a simple calculator
Where the definition of "simple" ...
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24
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: [TTQW | TTGH] | TTGTB
Originator: [attributed to] Simon André Forsberg (first TTQW here)
Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor
Background: leaving the chatroom and/or going AFK isn't something we ...
24
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Accepted
Prebash Challenge - 2014 - Simon Says - Now Complete
Simon André Forsberg Says
Let's play a game of Simon Says! The older folks around here probably remember a game called Simon.
The Challenge
Create a UI with four colored buttons that light up in a ...
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2014: What a ride!
Not just one, but two open source projects were born in the 2nd Monitor.
We don't just review code around here. We write it too.
A lot of the regulars in the 2nd Monitor began working on a card game ...
24
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Best of Code Review 2015
Best Newcomer (Answer) category: Best answer by a user who had not posted an answer before 2015.
24
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Best of Code Review 2016
Best Newcomer (Answer) category: Best answer by a user who had not posted an answer before 2016.
23
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Accepted
July 2016 Community Challenge
Monopoly
A Monopoly question was posted recently, and was very well received by the entire Stack Exchange community.
So my proposal is to create a Monopoly game. It seems like it'd be a challenge to ...
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23
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Accepted
August 2016 Community Challenge
The Rainfall Challenge
Problem description is copied verbatim from the linked Code Review question:
Problem Statement
A group of farmers has some elevation data, and we're going to help
them ...
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: Exploding bear traps
Originator: Grace Note
Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor, Website Graduation
Background: During the endless talk about Code Review graduation, some were wondering whether ...
22
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May 2015 Community Challenge
StackSTV
Stack Exchange uses an STV-based system for holding elections. They use the software OpenSTV to host it.
That software is no longer being maintained, and the system is being rebranded as ...
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22
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April 2017 Community Challenge
(re-submit of an idea from the last round)
Chain (or belt) drive system
I propose a variation on this challenge by Ell over on PCG - minus the golfing requirement, of course. (Disclosure: I've already ...
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21
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: Smoking The Documentation / STM
Originator: Simon, in response to a question by rolfl
Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor
Background: "The documentation." is now a common response to rhetorical ...
21
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What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?
Meme: Pimping my answer
Originator: rolfl
Cultural Height: Lack of voting on answers
Background: In an effort to increase exposure to under-voted answers, users on The 2nd Monitor started "pimping ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible