Timeline for What to do about permanently outdated questions/answers on SU
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| Feb 22, 2013 at 8:27 | comment | added | user60171 | If question is localized to the time frame, that time frame should be specifien. No longer relevant is too broad - when it was relevant? In 2012? 2011? A periodized #archive# flag could be the best way. | |
| Jul 22, 2010 at 18:01 | history | migrated | from meta.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Feb 6, 2010 at 14:38 | comment | added | Robert Cartaino | But "many technology questions" go beyond trouble shooting hardware/software. Consider all the "best of" questions: best price, best technology, best practices, fastest, most reliable... They are often very localized to the time frame they are being asked. Legacy support or not, surely you can see that "Best Laptop for Student?" -type questions will become irrelevant (and blatantly incorrect) in short order. I don't foresee them being kept up to date. Better to be [closed -- no longer relevant]. Those are the questions I am talking about. | |
| Feb 6, 2010 at 11:04 | comment | added | Richard | E.g. see this SF question: serverfault.com/questions/110157/… | |
| Feb 6, 2010 at 11:02 | comment | added | Richard | "Many technology questions have a limited lifetime.": true, but that limit is far longer than many of us would like. (E.g. 6 year old computers are going to be quite common in homes, many never updated since.) | |
| Feb 6, 2010 at 0:04 | history | answered | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 2.5 |