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You might like some data. See: http://stackoverflow.com/annotated-posts?tab=locked&filter=all http://stackoverflow.com/annotated-posts?tab=locked&filt... 1900
by Shog9 14y ago
You might like some data. See: http://stackoverflow.com/annotated-posts?tab=locked&filter=all http://stackoverflow.com/annotated-posts?tab=locked&filt...
1900 locked questions, out of which just over 1700 are locked because they were merged into duplicates, or migrated to other Stack Exchange sites.
< 200 locked questions out of 3.3 million doesn't seem so bad.
- genwin 14y agoThat's great info. If accurate I must be unlucky to hit so many locked questions. I just scrolled through all 38 pages but didn't see the question I referred to in the OP.
- waiwai933 14y agoIt's on page 17, or if you hit the "noticed" tab, it's there on the very first page.
- genwin 14y agoOkay, I see it. Maybe the extent of this issue is my imagination then.
- Shog9 14y ago> If accurate I must be unlucky to hit so many locked questions. Well, there's another possibility... A lot of those 200 locked posts were created when Stack Overflow was still very young, and are quite popular - they're locked because they turned into discussions or polls and are pretty much played out when it comes to getting anything answered, but keeping them around preserves whatever value made them popular. It's hardly surprising that you might stumble onto a few of the more popular posts regularly - there are a lot of links out there to some of them. It's pretty safe to say that something like this - http://stackoverflow.com/q/686216/ http://stackoverflow.com/q/686216/ - doesn't need more answers, and doesn't need to be repeated. But it's there, locked, in the archive for those who want to refer back to it.