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> no one wants to post updated answers because "it's just going to get flagged". I've seen plenty of "20xx: Now we do Y instead of X" answers posted years aft
by the8472 4y ago
> no one wants to post updated answers because "it's just going to get flagged".
I've seen plenty of "20xx: Now we do Y instead of X" answers posted years after the original answer.
- jjoonathan 4y agoSure, half the time -- and even then they are usually beneath the stale answer.
- the8472 4y agoHaving to scan through more than one answer isn't that terrible, better than not having an answer at all.
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoMy favorite was one where the top answer was: > No, there is no such feature, so I made a custom hotkey: Ctrl + ` And then a few years later Microsoft implemented the feature and made the default hotkey Ctrl + ` --- I felt a bit of trepidation editing a top answer with >1k votes, but I did it: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/43012779/revisions https://stackoverflow.com/posts/43012779/revisions Probably they need a deprecate-answer feature instead.