Itās not nice that some people could benefit from copying the solutions, but how can you restore things without penalizing honest users who solved the puzzles by themselves?
Besides, as @Magus and @CvxFous pointed out, itās unlikely that anyone could steal that many points just this week. In the long run thatās not going to make much of a difference.
Now, Iām trying to keep publish my solutions with comments and such. But It is a burden to go to the game page -> solutions -> my solution -> click on my solution to check if I keep it -> unpublish it -> go back to the game page -> ā¦
On āmy solutionsā tab, I would find it more user friendly to switch from one puzzle to another and to see all published (and only published) solutions.
Doing so would also help me see what solutions are liked or disliked by the community, those who generate the most comments and such.
I think the feature could be improved. For example, i already have 15 puzzles in bash and C++. And i already have 100% at the resistance puzzle. I should be able to see bash and C++ solutions for this puzzle. I canāt gain any point by copy/pasting the solution but i could learn a lot.
All I meant was that you canāt really call it ānewā if itās beyond a proof-of-language-knowledge hurdle.
Anyway, more feedback.
I find it a bit inconvenient that the votes are so closely tied to a specific solution. Now Iām in the situation where there are blatant bugs (to me, Iāll let you find them out on your own) in some of my top-voted solutions, and I canāt really fix them without unpublishing, republishing and losing all my votes on the way.
Iād suggest limiting publications to one per puzzle and keeping votes across republications on the same puzzle. Iām on the fence about comments, but probably keep them too.
This is a tradeoff: it makes it harder to publish golfed solutions in a proper self-contained way.
But I think itās worth it. There are already a few multi-implementation solutions out there, and they pull it off just fine in a single publication.