I can see the affinity between obfus/japhs and puzzles,
And obfus and poems are often very closely related. Many a node have been on a tug-of-war as to whether they end up among the obfus or among the poems. And some of the points on the spectrum between are polyglots, palindromes, and quines (and many/most examples of each of those are clearly not obfus and many/most examples of each of those are clearly not poems).
These are all examples of what is not practice and is not theory. They are "art" and/or "fun". If I saw a clear line to draw between "art" and "fun", then I could go for two sections. I don't see one.
It all falls under the category Entertainment. ysth mentions "Edutainment" and I can only guess that the "Edu" is because of the quizes. But I don't think these quizes were the "education" type of quizes. Certainly, you might learn something from any of these entertainments (and most sections of the Monastery have education among their goals), but the heart of the quizes I've seen has been entertainment with any education goals being clearly secondary. Show me a "quiz" someone posted that was dull and boring and yet covered a subject well and so was educational. They wouldn't call that a quiz. They'd call it a tutorial or such.
I don't know what area in a Monastery was devoted to entertainment. But I'm pretty sure most Monasteries didn't have an Obfu room (and I rather doubt many had a poetry room). Coming up with a suitable title for sections is often quite difficult. I'd probaly just call it "Entertainments" and specifically mention poems, obfu, golf, quizes, quines, palindromes, and polyglots in the description along with the concepts of "art" and/or "fun" (in contrast to "practice" and "theory").
I'd also prepend "Obfu: " to the title of each node that got moved from Obfu to Entertainments and prepend "Poem: " to the title of each node that got moved form Poerty to Entertainments and document that such categorization in titles is encouraged and note that existing categories include "Golf:" and "Quiz:" etc. And perhaps even provide redirects from the old obfu section that does a super search for Entertainments with "obfu" in the title.
Also note that Entertainments would be a section for examples of entertainments, not a place for discussion of entertainments or for programs whose primary purpose is to provide practical help in creating or engaging in entertainments. The line here is, as always, what is the primary purpose of a node.
For example, a program that plays tic-tac-toe might get posted to any section. If your primary purpose of posting is to ask a question about this program, then SoPW wins. If your primary purpose is to offer it as a new Monastery feature, the Tic-tac-toe Nodelet, then PMD wins. It might really be a Meditation or even a Tutorial. If the primary purpose is to offer code that is practical to use in order to play tic-tac-toe, then it goes in one of the too-many-to-mention-here code-sharing sections1. But if the code is in the shape of a big 3-by-3 grid with ASCII-art oversized exes and ohs in it, then it is an Entertainment and belongs in Entertainments.
- tye
1 of which we should really only have one, and I'm leaning toward Cool Uses for Perl because you can move nodes to/from that section and the categorization found in some of the other sections never really became useful so let's do categorization some other way that doesn't get in the way of moving between sections -- remember, there is no "move to snippets"!
In reply to Re^4: Should PM have a Puzzles Corner? (entertainments)
by tye
in thread Should PM have a Puzzles Corner?
by tlm
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