Even Stack Overflow, the saviour of programmers the world over, rarely shows version information in its questions or answers. I recall once, whilst reviewing so

Even Stack Overflow, the saviour of programmers the world over, rarely shows version information in its questions or answers. I recall once, whilst reviewing some changes, that one user had edited another’s question and removed the version number from the tags they has added. Maybe that’s SO’s policy but it is madness. I agree with the sentiments above, there's no clear policy other than this poorly thought out response by Jeff: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/85744/419 http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/85744/419 I think version specific tags, regardless of whether you're using new functionality or not should be added to a question. If a user is trying to solve a problem in C#2.0 style but you know (from the tags) they're using the 4.0 compiler then you can provide them with a 4.0 specific answer/solution which possibly is more succinct/better. This also happened in the Sharepoint meta: http://meta.sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/142/version-tags-considered-harmful http://meta.sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/142/versi... As someone who was a Sharepoint dev and admin, I found that to be a mistake and inconsistent with other dev sites in the SE network. Even the normally sane and rational Shog got this wrong too: http://meta.sharepoint.stackexchange.com/a/152/3611 http://meta.sharepoint.stackexchange.com/a/152/3611 That said, some users just don't know any better when asking questions, some don't even know what version of the tools they're using, or how to find out.