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This site seems like it would suffer even more so. On Joel's blog, the the announcement for this site [1] asked "Want to know how ... delete your Facebook acco

• mhp 16y ago
  'will it be updated every time Facebook tweaks their site to discourage account deletion?' - that's the idea. 'How long is the accepted answer to that question going to be up to date?' - hopefully as soon as FB changes the system and someone realizes the answer is wrong.
  • blasdel 16y ago
    But their software is heavily reified against that sort of thing -- a new answer is made and then it's karma would have to surpass the existing one (which the karma-inflation problem makes easier) but it also needs to get accepted in place of the existing one, screwing over the original answerer. The already-accepted answer could also be community-wiki-edited beyond recognition. Pretending temporality doesn't exist doesn't make it go away.
  • evilduck 16y ago
    But the problem is that only the original poster can accept answers, and a newly added (and correct) answer may be pushed so far down the list of answers, it could take a needlessly long time to overcome the currently highest upvoted solution. Ideally, a user could report something as out of date, or the ranking algorithm would degrade the value of an answer as it ages (which would be a problem for ageless Q/A situations like traditional computer science questions).