Timeline for SO should notify users of broken links in their posts
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 9:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Jan 2, 2014 at 23:37 | comment | added | Jon Seigel | @slhck: Yeah... that's a big mistake. Nick said the only issue was the reporting part, not the data collection. Maybe that should be revived (plus a new Report Broken Link) with a feature request separately from this question, even if the report isn't implemented. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 20:14 | comment | added | slhck | The anonymous feedback was removed in December 2013: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/209655/… — I agree a "report broken link" option would have been nice. And easy to implement. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 19:55 | comment | added | Jon Seigel | @slhck: Ah right. Thinking about it again now, I would rather have seen anonymous feedback extended to add other options, i.e., report a broken link. I don't see why an opportunity for that kind of data acquisition was removed, even if it wasn't being analyzed. Many other sites have that kind of thing. Do you know off-hand when that was done? I just looked at the 10k tools and I think some of the options are missing ("overrated" and "underrated" posts rings a bell?) from the last time I checked which wasn't that long ago. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 19:39 | comment | added | slhck | I know your answer is old, but nothing really changed since it was posted. Anonymous feedback was disabled (and I guess the data was thrown away) because nobody ever looked into it, and it wouldn't have helped in combatting broken links either, because you could just up/downvote and that's it. 2010 and now, there are still no ways for guests or users < 15 reputation to provide explicit feedback. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 19:21 | comment | added | Jon Seigel | @slhck: First of all, this answer is years old. What happened to anonymous post feedback? Second, the last paragraph still applies. If the post can't stand on its own without the link, then it's a low-quality post, and should have been improved while the link was active. I'm not disagreeing that link rot is bad. There used to be enough ways to let people know about it. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 16:01 | comment | added | slhck | Don't agree with this. Visitors, who make up a large share of all traffic, can never comment or flag. They have no means to point out broken links. | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 16:35 | comment | added | Lukas Eder | Much better than comments would be flags sending out notifications to the OP. Because comments tend to turn stale once the link is fixed | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 18:40 | vote | accept | Tim Keating | ||
| May 24, 2010 at 20:31 | history | answered | Jon Seigel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |