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The way SO is moderated encourages out of date information. For example, if you find a question from 2015, with all out of date answers, if you ask it again to
by Someone1234 8y ago
The way SO is moderated encourages out of date information.
For example, if you find a question from 2015, with all out of date answers, if you ask it again today it will be flagged as duplicate with a link to the 2015 answers and no further discussion is allowed. The older SO gets the worse the content gets.
They're trying to make a "Wiki site" but in a Q&A format, it doesn't work and doesn't make sense. Until they realize that their moderation policies are going to keep driving away questions that would warrant modern/fresh answers.
For example try searching SO but set your Google to only show content from the last 12 months, the results are simply low quality with half mod-dead. Most of the good content is from two years ago or more, back before the site switched from Q&A to "confused Wiki-site."
- codinghorror 8y agoPer the wiki comparison, there's an edit button on every answer and question -- it works even if you're not logged in. Try it! I'm starting to think that calling the edit button "improve this answer" and "improve this question" was a mistake..
- ndnxhs 8y agoI always had the idea that the edit button was for minor corrections or clarifications of the post and not to radically change the post itself.
- codinghorror 8y agoif the information in the answer is incorrect as of a certain version of the library / environment, it's perfectly fine for anyone with a web browser to edit that additional information into the post.
- rcxdude 8y agoDoes this allow you to flag a question in a way which means it shows up in the queue of unanswered questions and is thus likely to attract an answer from someone monitoring the relevant tags? I didn't see an obvious way to do this from a quick experiment.