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Counterpoint, blog posts age; information or opinion from 10 years ago may no longer be accurate or reflect the author's held beliefs. Is it still worth discuss
by Cthulhu_ 1y ago
Counterpoint, blog posts age; information or opinion from 10 years ago may no longer be accurate or reflect the author's held beliefs. Is it still worth discussing it then?
That said, I run old fashioned forums and some older threads get revived there from time to time with new insights. Others get flagged up by copyright holders under DMCA takedown threats or bumped by spambots though.
- niutech 1y agoNot necessarily 10 years ago, you cannot comment on a HN post even from a month ago!
- zenmac 1y agoWhy is that? Be good to join discussion from the past and bring back some zombie thread? No?
- edoceo 1y agoNo. Re-post / start a new thread. Many times the old-threads will be cross-linked (I see this pattern a lot on HN)
- accrual 1y agoI wanted to add that some zombie/necro posts are useful outside the context of HN. For example on retro computing boards it makes me so happy when someone bumps a 5 year old thread to share new details, benchmarks, etc. about some card or motherboard where the ancient thread is first thing that appears in search results.
- pseudalopex 1y agoInformation which is no longer accurate is worth identifying or updating.
- dr_kretyn 1y agoThere's a lot between "few hours on hacker news" and "10 years"