Timeline for What should we do with outdated answers?
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| Jun 20, 2022 at 11:15 | history | edited | Duarte Farrajota RamosMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 18, 2022 at 16:24 | comment | added | Duarte Farrajota Ramos Mod | That would certainly be an interesting project. Not sure how algorithms handle that, but if a question as answers and/or positive score I think they are still considered for results, I hope | |
| May 18, 2022 at 16:18 | comment | added | Nathan | Well, it's probably always going to be a thing where the workload grows faster than it can be done, but if the problem is impractically long chains, that is solvable with coding-- it should be possible to have a "closed as duplicate" iterate through linking questions. Although if duplicates get closed to Google, and SE search remains bad, it might not help any. | |
| May 18, 2022 at 15:55 | comment | added | Duarte Farrajota Ramos Mod | "A way to do this would be to start marking even older questions as duplicates. and we could trace the close messages to figure out which Q to refer people to." Indeed, I've done this on an occasion or two, for the most well known cases, but it starts becoming unpractical for longer "chains" of duplicates. | |
| May 18, 2022 at 15:50 | comment | added | Nathan | And, it wouldn't hurt one bit to have somebody saying which question should be canonical. There are thousands of duplicates, and when I have to mark something as a duplicate, I just pick one (usually one that I've answered, because I know for a fact that it's a duplicate in that case, and because I can actually find the link that way-- I know what I've said, so I know how to find it on Google.) A way to do this would be to start marking even older questions as duplicates. and we could trace the close messages to figure out which Q to refer people to. | |
| May 18, 2022 at 15:25 | comment | added | Nathan | Agree strongly with your thinking here. I think one of the things that makes people less likely to answer old questions is the "solved" mark. Good questions are forever; solutions are temporary; and really, the person asking the question is often not very qualified to designate the solution to the problem, not in the general sense, and often not even in their own specific sense. "Flag as probably a duplicate" would be a good feature that would help people spread the work to those willing to do it. Algorithm for bumping old Qs could use some work; it doesn't choose good ones. | |
| May 17, 2022 at 1:49 | comment | added | Gunty |
Post your new and shiny answer in two places. I think this is quite a good solution. I can see quite alot of positives to this methodology with very few drawbacks
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| May 16, 2022 at 14:53 | history | edited | Duarte Farrajota RamosMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2022 at 11:52 | history | edited | Duarte Farrajota RamosMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2022 at 11:45 | history | answered | Duarte Farrajota RamosMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |