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With so many people visiting SO for exactly these kinds of valuable answers, I believe SO should embrace them instead of the ongoing battle of rejecting them.
by joeyespo 11y ago
With so many people visiting SO for exactly these kinds of valuable answers, I believe SO should embrace them instead of the ongoing battle of rejecting them.
If cleaning up irrelevant questions can't be automated, how about having a "this is no longer relevant" button appear a few months after the post has been answered? Or having a [subjective] tag that has an expiration date on being indexed on Google.
Now that the bad ideas are out of the way, let's hear some others.
- Latty 11y agoRejecting them works better. Those questions can be answered on other sites that are more suited to a discussion format and won't end up floating on search results despite being out of date like SO's will. Trying to make SO a jack of all trades will degrade the quality of the content and make the site worse - the whole reason that it's the good source of content it is is because of these restrictions.
- joeyespo 11y agoOutright rejection hurts the long-term though. People will go elsewhere to ask valuable questions, which will slowly degrade the quality by having fewer and fewer valuable questions asked. We're seeing this happen now.