Timeline for What if the answers of a historical locked question become obsolete?
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| Oct 14 at 0:52 | comment | added | casperOne | @S.S.Anne I would say it does; if the links are dead, it's not useful anymore. If it's not useful anymore, it should be reconsidered for a historical lock. If it's not fit for a historical lock anymore, it should be deleted. Historical locks should not be updated to keep an example of what not to do on the site. | |
| Oct 5 at 5:06 | comment | added | S.S. Anne | One aspect that this answer fails to address is that of dead links. The only way for me to bring attention to an answer that has a dead link (be it down or malware-ridden) is to post on Meta and hope that a moderator sees it. | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 21:02 | comment | added | Braiam | Where was this answer all these years? I was blind and now I can see. | |
| Nov 12, 2013 at 12:19 | comment | added | casperOne Mod | @GabrielePetronella The subtle point is "veering towards"; if a question is locked, it can't be updated. At some point the content in the question will be outdated to the point of it not being useful anymore. It will be at that point that the post should be deleted. | |
| Nov 11, 2013 at 23:18 | comment | added | Gabriele Petronella | I posed a similar question a few minutes ago: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/207031/…, and I was pointed here. This answer is not fully satisfying me though. What if the locked post is still very useful and only a little part of the information it provides is outdated? Deleting it doesn't sound right, still it's providing outdated information which is not a good thing given its visibility. | |
| Nov 11, 2013 at 23:16 | history | edited | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Not actually possible to flag these. HL is the lockingest lock available.
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 16:14 | vote | accept | SatheeshJM | ||
| Nov 20, 2012 at 16:14 | vote | accept | SatheeshJM | ||
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 15:03 | history | edited | casperOneMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 14:55 | comment | added | user50049 | It would be nice if we could see anonymous feedback gathered from posts that have such a lock. That lets us see how useful people find them over time. On the one hand, we're telling people not to flag for technical inaccuracies, then on the other we're .. ugh. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 14:40 | history | answered | casperOneMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |