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Just curious, when I find a particular answer (not necessarily the accepted answer) to an old question which has already been answered (say one year ago), is it good etiquette to upvote it?
I ask because I've occassionally found similiar questions to what I was originally intending to ask and the posts for those questions answered my actual query.
Yes, in fact this is exactly what should happen.
We up vote answers that are useful to us no matter what timeframe. Even though the answer might have been written a year ago, it is still useful, and the author should be rewarded.
