Timeline for How do we encourage edits to obsolete/out of date answers?
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| S Feb 7, 2016 at 3:22 | history | edited | hildred | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
separate a different concern
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| S Feb 7, 2016 at 3:22 | history | suggested | ivan_pozdeev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
separate a different concern
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| Feb 7, 2016 at 2:45 | comment | added | ivan_pozdeev |
Suggesting a few critical improvements: 1)the disclaimer must be prominent - at the top of the post and highlighted (quotation block perhaps); 2) it shall tell where the old answer stops working (it's not always a version) rather than where it works; 3)it must not link to another answer directly but should probably tell the reason, concisely (a footnote or a link to a comment perhaps if more than a single phrase is needed). E.g.: Irrelevant since vX.XX due to new_function().
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| Feb 7, 2016 at 2:25 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 5:02 | comment | added | Graham Perrin | I do like the simplicity. However it's sometimes inappropriate, or impossible, to edit as suggested in the first of hildred's two points. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/23022138#23022138 as a recent example of refraining from edition of an answer to add version and/or date information. | |
| Aug 1, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | hildred | @andy256, The advice about bacteria on wood cutting boards seems to change every time someone does a study (which seems to be both technical and suited to dates for tracking recommendations), so I'm not particularly concerned. either it changes rapidly (release of a study, change of law or regulation) and would be suitable for marking with a date or version, or it does not change which is not a problem, or it changes slowly which is a different problem (new answers are discriminated against which I think should be solved by a different sorting algorithm like comparative voting or date biased). | |
| Aug 1, 2015 at 10:24 | comment | added | andy256 | This idea may be useful as is on technical stacks, but on stacks such as cooking, parenting, cycling, etc, it would need to be broadened. | |
| Aug 1, 2015 at 0:01 | comment | added | hildred | If someone can't figure out that they need to scroll down farther when they are using version five when there is a bold line at the top of the answer that the answer applies to version three because stuff changed in version four, then I really don't know what to say, but if we use an outdated flag it would be reasonable for the obsolete answers to be downsorted. my proposal for comparative voting would also help, but no one liked that. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 22:36 | comment | added | M.A.R. | This is great, except the fact that in smaller or bigger SEs, for different reasons, some important edits go unnoticed. Furthermore, getting people to edit is a chore itself. Also, most people don't scroll far down to see the updated answer on the bottom of page 3 of answers. So, you need to propose something that'll help with the sorting. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 22:31 | history | answered | hildred | CC BY-SA 3.0 |