> it has no real viable way of cleaning up or deprecating old answers This is one of the things that baffled me the most. Until very recently you could not ev

> it has no real viable way of cleaning up or deprecating old answers This is one of the things that baffled me the most. Until very recently you could not even sort by "newest answers first" (I just checked and it seems it has been added now, but it looks like it was added this year?), which seems a pretty strange decision considering technology changes so fast. As years went by, it became more and more difficult to look for answers as you would need to search through piles of old answers to find the most recent one (which was not necessarily the accepted answer or even the one with the most votes). I mean, most places I've seen, that show data with a sortable Date field, let you sort by olders or newest, but not SO, no. I could never find an answer fot this, but always seemed like a big obvious oversight.