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To the MHB community,
There have been a few questions that have been brought to our attention regarding the number of submissions made by members for each week's POTW. We first want to say that there is nothing wrong with submitting corrections to a solution if you find a mistake in your original answer; that was the primary reason why we enabled the option that sends you a PM of the solution you submitted. There's no need to feel guilty or sorry about this! We all make mistakes sometimes, and since you're given a week to submit an answer, this gives you time to make any changes you see fit.
However, we want to make it known that there should be some sort of reasonable cap imposed on the number of times you can resubmit an answer after you make your initial submission. After a discussion with anemone and MarkFL, we agreed to cap the number of submissions any member can make for each our our POTWs at four: the original submission plus a maximum of three corrections. If you submit four or more corrections for a given POTW, we will ignore it (even if it's correct) and "grade" your third correction.
Thanks again to those of you who participate in our weekly POTWs. We look forward to your continual participation as we approach the two year anniversary of the POTW!
There have been a few questions that have been brought to our attention regarding the number of submissions made by members for each week's POTW. We first want to say that there is nothing wrong with submitting corrections to a solution if you find a mistake in your original answer; that was the primary reason why we enabled the option that sends you a PM of the solution you submitted. There's no need to feel guilty or sorry about this! We all make mistakes sometimes, and since you're given a week to submit an answer, this gives you time to make any changes you see fit.

However, we want to make it known that there should be some sort of reasonable cap imposed on the number of times you can resubmit an answer after you make your initial submission. After a discussion with anemone and MarkFL, we agreed to cap the number of submissions any member can make for each our our POTWs at four: the original submission plus a maximum of three corrections. If you submit four or more corrections for a given POTW, we will ignore it (even if it's correct) and "grade" your third correction.
Thanks again to those of you who participate in our weekly POTWs. We look forward to your continual participation as we approach the two year anniversary of the POTW!
