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Did a quick search for similar, sorry if I duped.

Feature suggest for any SE site:

  • run a cron task...
  • that checks all posted links for dead-ness...
  • using methods suggested here or elsewhere
  • if link is dead strike it out or similar
  • (optional) notify poster of link
  • (optional) if post/comment containing the dead link has 50% link chars (i.e. the post/comment is mostly the link), the flag for deletion
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    +1, but let's called it "dead link hunter" - giving a badge for being a hunter implies that you have plenty of kills...
    – Adam Rackis
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:22
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    I believe waffles was working on a built-in tool for this shortly before he left... pretty sure there was a Meta post somewhere... looking....
    – Pops
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:27
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    @PopularDemand Does Stack Exchange crawl websites?
    – Tim Stone
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:28
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    Waffles left??? Sorry to hear that.
    – Adam Rackis
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:29
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    @PopularDemand I remember that too. It creates comments like this one
    – Josh Darnell
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:30
  • I haven't heard anything about the bot being deactivated, so I'd assume this is already taken care of...there's just no longer a /review route for posts that get comments.
    – Tim Stone
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:30
  • @AdamRackis He's off to new adventures (relevant blog post)
    – Tim Stone
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:31
  • In addition to Tim's link, see Validating that which can not be validated, how do we deal with robots exclusions? and How should we handle “conditionally” broken links?
    – Pops
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:51
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    @AdamRackis well, he claims to have moved on, but... his profile says "seen 1 hour ago."
    – Pops
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 15:52
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    @Popular Demand: He has left the company, but not the community :)
    – BoltClock's a Unicorn Mod
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 16:55
  • Suuuuuuure, @BoltClock'saUnicorn. You know he's still logging in when he thinks nobody's checking the logs, submitting little patches here and there....
    – Pops
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 16:59
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    A good feature for such a tool would be to check archive.org to see if there is archived content available there & replace the link with one to the archived content (perhaps with an appropriate flag). But what about dead links that come back to life? How ever a dead link is handled it ought to be checked for resurrection.
    – yosh m
    Commented Feb 13, 2013 at 11:00
  • IMHO should be implemented the way users mark the link as dead. After a number of such reports the author of the answer gets a notification with a request to update the link or find an alternative location. If no change for a certain period of time -> strike the link through
    – JSmyth
    Commented Feb 17, 2013 at 12:31

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