Timeline for Edit new info into outdated answer or let new answer rise to the top
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| Jun 23, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | Changing old questions/answers is bad. But it is a site-specific issue that software versions come and go and all material linked to them will decay. Would a question of an issue on v6.0.1 that cannot be solved with any solution addressing v5.6.9 and before be closed as duplicate or "too narrow"? | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 18:16 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @Mindwin they can, yes, but you cannot go changing old questions to suit particular versions and make half their answers obsolete and we cannot manually split a question into versions. Neither can you ask a very specific question saying "only this version released on 22nd June 2016" as it may be forever unanswered as too narrow as no one uses that version or the feature changed the next day. You can't have it both ways and you have it neither way. This doesn't happen that often and generally the best way is to be pragmatic about it. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 17:16 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | I think there is another way. Questions on superuser can be directed to a specific version of a software, right? | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 14:58 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @Mindwin that would be up to you. Personally I prefer to only downvote outright wrong answers, as the answer is at least right for some permutations of older software it might be useful for people maintaining old machines. Depends how wrong you think the answer is. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 14:33 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | Downvote the outdated answer as it is not helpful? | |
| Jun 13, 2016 at 14:11 | vote | accept | SnoringFrog | ||
| Jun 9, 2016 at 20:24 | history | edited | MokubaiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2016 at 20:11 | history | answered | MokubaiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |