On Sunday, 20 August 2017 at 02:44:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, August 19, 2017 15:17:52 Ecstatic Coder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Its called necro-posting.
> I'm surprised that post isn't read-only.
Call it like you want, but I ee people putting new
answers/comments to years old posts all the times, as it's
perfectly legitimate on many blogs and websites.
What was the best answer 10 years ago is often completely
wrong nowadays.
Forbidding people to suggest what can easily solve the problem
*right now* is what would be silly IMHO.
IIRC, there's even a badge for necro-posting. I don't think
that I've ever done it though.
There are at least 2 different badges for old posting answers
Here my track record in C answers
https://stackoverflow.com/users/146377/patrick-schl%c3%bcter?tab=badges
I'm 12 times necromancer i.e. answered a question older than 60
days with a score higher than 5 and am also an excavator which
means that I edited a question or an answer in a post that was
inactive for 6 months.
So, editing and answering old questions is encouraged on
stackoverflow and imho it is a good thing, nothing is more
annoying than googling for a question and only finding answers in
old mailing lists that apply only to a compiler/system/language
from the '90s.
