Timeline for What should be done about questions whose answers go obsolete?
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| Dec 20, 2011 at 18:39 | comment | added | slhck | @soandos Of course. Then it's time to create a new question and close the old one as a duplicate of that. See How can we take care of our old duplicates? | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 18:35 | comment | added | soandos | @slhck, unless there is a process for going back to these questions in a years time, they will just stick around... | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 18:34 | comment | added | slhck | @soandos That's going to be hard. This is exactly why we have community voting, and I think it works pretty well. The time horizon really depends on the case.. It wouldn't have made sense to close the early SSD questions just because they are outdated now, but it does not make sense to keep questions about the fastest XYZ on the market. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 18:28 | comment | added | soandos | @slhck, I have no idea how quickly new types of coolent come out, but I am not sure that we should set a time horizon (good for one year keep it, good for six months, ditch it) type of rule. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 18:24 | comment | added | slhck | @soandos What you've posted is a different matter. Types of cooling liquid won't change as much as CPU specs. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 18:08 | comment | added | soandos | superuser.com/questions/369072/… is recent. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 18:05 | history | answered | Sathyajith BhatMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |