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31 questions linked to/from How do we encourage edits to obsolete/out of date answers?
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What is a better way to mark answers as obsolete? [duplicate]
Answers sometimes become obsolete. New solutions arise that were not technically feasible at the time that the question was originally posed. People decide that the old way of doing things is no ...
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Making a significant improvement to an answer already accepted or upvoted, where to put update? [duplicate]
This would be a person making an edit to that's person's own prior answer that makes a significant improvement. Say it's an algorithm improvement that reduces time complexity (such as from O(log(n)) ...
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Fastest Gun in the West Problem
I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases.
Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This ...
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What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions?
Right now the front page Popular tab is fairly broken -- it's a simple descending sort by views. As Joel said in podcast #18, it is "a self-fulfilling prophecy." But this is not intentional, ...
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We are updating our Code of Conduct and we would like your feedback
Update, May 31st, 2023: The updated code of conduct has been released network-wide.
A good Code of Conduct is a handshake agreement between users and the company. It is a document that inspires trust ...
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Repository of useful pro-forma comments
Every tag has its questions that make the same mistake(s) over and over and over again. (But some tags more than others.)
That's where Benjol's pro forma comments script comes in. The only downside to ...
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Can we exempt negatively-scored accepted answers from getting the top spot? [duplicate]
Similar to this request but narrower, I'm suggesting we make a particular exception for negatively-scored accepted answers (those with score less than zero, or some other threshold like -3), so that ...
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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?
We all have our pet projects - things we wish SE would do but which seem to be forever stuck in the backlog pile. Other times, something that's well received gets forgotten in the shuffle.
Inspired by ...
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How aggressively should we maintain and improve very popular questions? [closed]
I was discussing this question on team chat:
How do I perform an IF...THEN in an SQL SELECT?
This question is a high value asset on the site it was posted, it already has 150k views, 120+ total votes ...
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Let's move some negatively scored answers from the top spot
Internally, we've been discussing how we can deal with obsolete or out-of-date answers. A few weeks ago, I requested some feedback on how to encourage edits to these types of answers, while I'm still ...
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RSS feed of your favorite tags
It would be nice if we could subscribe to an RSS feed of all the questions that match your 'favorite' tags i.e. an RSS feed of the questions that get highlighted as yellow when viewing the question ...
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How to deal with obsolete answers?
I was thinking about this issue from time to time but I didn't know whether it really exists or just an speculation on my side until today when I woke up [!], I saw a very old answer of mine which was ...
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Keeping special status for Accepted Answers without sticking them to top forever? [duplicate]
I often see complaints about highly voted answers (an indicator of community respect) appearing below an accepted answer which may have far fewer votes e.g. Shouldn't the answer with more votes be ...
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Auto-protect questions that get more than N answers from new users in a 24-hour period
Expanding the criteria for auto-protection has been discussed in the past: Should we automatically protect all questions with more than N answers?
But I think that discussion addresses the wrong ...
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How is misrepresentation of Stack Exchange in the media (and in science) handled?
I'm a regular reader of the site of the British newspaper The Guardian. The quality of the articles is generally high and they cover a wide range of topics. Today I was surprised to come across an ...
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What do with those answers?
There was a question "How to deal with obsolete answers?"
The most popular answer to it says that obsolete answers should be deleted or updated.
Here is a question asked at SO. Its accepted answer ...
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With rapid technological change, some answers might have become obsolete
Can I ask the same question which was asked 3 years back? - Answers surely going to be different as technology has changed.
This a question in question:
Is there a visual modeling language or style ...
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"Dubious" button: unmark answer as accepted via voting
It is not a secret, that across Stack Exchange sites there are plenty of accepted answers of a dubious quality. They may answer the question, but lack something crucial. Some answers even get accepted ...
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Edit to someone else's obsolete answer rejected
I recently suggested this edit, which was rejected:
https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/1838028
Background information:
The edit brings up-to-date an obsolete answer to a question about ...
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What does SO do to keep old questions useful? Or: What does SO do to keep the best answers easy to find?
It's a theme of my StackOverflow sessions that I always end up speedreading old solutions to problems, which is great - I can learn a lot that way, it's basically how SO is used by everyone ever, cool ...
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Add incentives to "groom" high quality questions / answers in the long term
First off, forgive me if this has been proposed already. I did not find anything in the search, but of course I didn't search every suggestion there is.
In some SO questions (and I'm sure SF/SU as ...
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What is the optimal way to upvote answers? [closed]
Normally I just start reading from the oldest and upvote if I find something useful.
A good example is -
How to determine a Python variable's type?
The first answer essentially says to use type(v). ...
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What to do if inexperienced users in an area VTC and veto all questions regarding that issue? [closed]
(There's a TL;DR at the end.)
I'm currently having an issue over on Arqade. In theory, Stack Exchange should be a place to trade expertise over subjects, however, I've been noticing people without any ...
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Old answers being downvoted because the solution doesn't apply anymore
Our field is pretty dynamic and things are constantly in change. What the "right way" was to fix a problem in 2009 is completely wrong today. For example, a recipe to install Ruby on Mac OS X from ...
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How to deal with questions with a highly voted answer (outdated) and a lowly voted answer that will only become increasingly relevant
Like this one: How do I get Haml to work with Rails?
This is actually pretty common to rapidly-evolving stacks like Rails (for that question, haml-rails is considered as the current standard)
I ...
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Should ongoing support be rewarded with additional upvotes?
I direct your attention to this answer which has been sustained and updated over time. Reading through the answer shows how times change and improvements warrant readdressing questions and answers. ...
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Moderation for extremely high view count questions
There are many questions asked when stack first begun becoming popular, which deal with somewhat "fundamental" features of a popular language, library or development environment.
The problem with any ...
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Editing an Accepted Answer with attributed content from another answer
I'm just double-checking with Meta on this, because I'm not 100% sure if I'm right or not.
I quickly Googled something, and landed on this SO page. The accepted answer is rather verbose, to the point ...
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Looking for concise guide on what to do with obsolete answers [duplicate]
I'm looking for clear, concise guidelines on what to do when one comes across an answer (written by another user, and not necessarily the accepted answer, or one with high votes) that is now ...
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Are there any studies on the techniques used to find duplicates?
Are there any analytics collected when a user clicks "Close as a duplicate"?
E.g.:
how many search queries did s/he fire before pasting the exact dupe id?
did s/he click on "Related" questions?
how ...
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