Timeline for Should we bother closing old questions?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 9:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 9, 2015 at 14:31 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2015 at 8:44 | comment | added | jww | @fixer1234 - "How would you deal with the double standard" - for old questions that probably should have been closed, I do something tricky.... I leave a comment with the text that would have been added if the question was actually closed. I don't actually cast the close vote. The text warns future visitors without penalizing the asker. If I happen to ask the question (have you ever visited one of your early question, and shook your head in disbelief?), then I actually cast a close vote on it. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 8:37 | comment | added | jww | @fixer1234 - "How would you deal with the double standard" - ah, yes. I know the situation you are describing. For new questions where the OP gets argumentative and cites old questions, I cite the Help Center policy with What topics can I ask about here? and explain the community failed in its obligation in the past. The policy is important - its what gives us authority to move against questions. We can't "just act" without authority, even though some users do. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 5:16 | comment | added | fixer1234 | How would you deal with the double standard (user9876 asked the same kind of question and theirs is on-topic, why are you closing mine)? Would the answer be, " if you can go back in time and ask your question 3 yrs ago, we'll leave yours open, too.")? Very few of the authors are still active, or still looking for another answer if they are. Would we be creating a situation where new answers that the question attracts are low quality and spam, with no potential benefit to the OP? Perhaps grandfather only questions where the OP is still around to benefit? | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 4:40 | comment | added | jww | @fixer1234 - yeah, that's one of those observations from Stack Overflow. On SO, the community usually pounds people with off-topic questions. On SO, I call it "hunting in packs", where someone goes to a chat room and asks for a crowd to close a question. Its like watching a lynch mob mobilize. Its such a common practice that SO actually has tags for it. cv-pls is "Close Vote Please". | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 4:27 | comment | added | fixer1234 | I'm not sure whether we agree or disagree. :-) I agree that questions that were once on topic and answered should not be deleted. By not "penalizing" the asker, are you referring to rep (closure doesn't affect votes, old or new), or the ability to get an answer (as in grandfathering old questions so they're always open, regardless of norms)? | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 3:32 | history | answered | jww | CC BY-SA 3.0 |