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This is the reason I'm not suggesting to edit or remove old answer, just down-rank them in results. If 99% of development uses a new standard, showing the depre
by gibolt 6y ago
This is the reason I'm not suggesting to edit or remove old answer, just down-rank them in results. If 99% of development uses a new standard, showing the deprecated one at the top by default on the post most developers will find via Google isn't good.
Even if you add a comment or an addendum with a link, it is only a band-aid that probably half of non-senior devs will still miss, trudging down the wrong path anyway
- chx 6y agoMy friend, raise it on meta, here we are just yelling into the widn. That's where these discussions belong. Perhaps these discussions I linked were too long ago. Perhaps after a set amount of time -- certainly measured in years -- people with a silver tag badge could vote to move the accepted checkmark and after say five such votes it would move over automatically and people with gold tag badges just could move them.