Timeline for Show embattled deleted questions to the public as if they were 10k+ users
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| Mar 5, 2012 at 5:40 | comment | added | nhinkle |
The 410: gone header would solve the google problem nicely. I agree that it should not turn up in search.
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| Mar 5, 2012 at 0:41 | comment | added | Zelda | blocking 'em from search is a good point as well | |
| Mar 4, 2012 at 22:43 | comment | added | darron | I disagree with most, except for the gone from the onsite search bit. This could work long term... it could act exactly like 'deleted' does, except it simply doesn't break the link. I'd still prefer it to be reachable from Google. Users from Google should immediately see a banner stating this is historical/off-topic-but-valued and that it does not reflect what the site wants now. I see how there's a rep balancing issue to fix, but you don't have to go piss off every non-10K user who contributed one of these just to solve that particular problem. | |
| Mar 4, 2012 at 7:50 | comment | added | Cody Gray | because there will still be people who think the question is on the site and therefore grounds for justifying new similar questions But the convenient thing about those people is that they will just be wrong. When they make those arguments, it will be a simple matter of quoting the message at the top of the linked question and showing them the door. We already close questions here on Meta along the lines of "why can't I post my question to Stack Overflow?" with extreme prejudice as a duplicate. I fail to see what the difference would be here. Why can't this be a long-term solution? | |
| Mar 4, 2012 at 1:32 | comment | added | Pekka |
Yeah, deleted stuff wouldn't show up in the SE internal search, like it is with deleted questions at the moment. And they would be phased out from the Google index - whichever way is optimal there, the 410 gone status code looks good but there may be other ways.
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| Mar 4, 2012 at 1:30 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |