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is it a bug or feature that I can keep just answering one puzzle over and over and build my "sickles"? Also it seems pretty that this could be hi-jacked by a c

is it a bug or feature that I can keep just answering one puzzle over and over and build my "sickles"? Also it seems pretty that this could be hi-jacked by a cabal of users sharing answers to puzzles and "block voting" on stories. I like the general idea though and I am trying to think of a suggestion for how puzzles could not easily be manipulated like that. Maybe having a much larger pool of generated puzzles which when answered correctly are taken out of circulation permanently? At least this would make people looking for answers have to learn the general theories behind the puzzles and thus in a round-about way rehabilite the cheaters. haha!?

drewcrawford 18y ago
If you're talking about "meaningoflife", that's mostly something we're using to benchmark our difficulty algorithm. The difficulty is approaching zero pretty quickly, meaning it won't be handing out sickles for very long. Sorting out problem difficulty algorithmically instead of arbitrarily makes it harder to game the system--if someone writes a bot, difficulty will go to 0 pretty quickly without us having to do anything. Most of the other ("realer") puzzles randomly generate after you solve them the first time. This keeps the difficulty (and sickle handout) up.