Questions tagged [old-questions]
For questions about old questions.
186 questions
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Tag cleanup found many questions using the tag for an old feature. Should it get its own tag?
I was happily working my way through a tag cleanup where several tags were supposed to be merged into a new activity-tab tag. The new tag is meant encompass the Activity tab of a user profile. ...
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How should outdated answers on old (bumped) questions be curated?
Occasionally, old questions here on Meta SE are bumped up for a variety of reasons (tags are tidied, random edits, spam replies, Community bot, etc.) The most up-voted answers for these question can ...
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Etiquette on answering "old" but active, unanswered, and time-sensitive questions
What's the etiquette on answering old but active, unanswered, and timely questions? I have found similar questions here, all are very old too, by then stackoverflow was still mainly programming Q&...
user1148964
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Warn when Comment or Answer may be inappropriate due to age of Question or OP abandonment
When a very old question is bumped by an SE Bot or by user activity, certain comments or answers are not appropriate. For example, asking a long-gone OP for a clarification or answering a question ...
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Don't bump "dead" questions [duplicate]
Community Bot visits old questions and bumps them so that they can receive answers and hopefully have an accepted answer eventually. However, many answers are old, and the OP sometimes hasn’t visited ...
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2 votes
0 answers
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What is the correct way to ask help finding an old SE Q&A I can't find anymore? [duplicate]
I am an active member of Sci-Fi and Fantasy SE and I found myself in this situation several times: I see a question (sometimes answered) that piques my interest. I read it, mark it down in my memory ...
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1 answer
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Why do questions not get locked after a period of inactivity?
At least in exchanges where "necro-posting" is banned, questions do not get locked after a period of inactivity, and therefore can still have answers and comments added. If moderation ...
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Dealing with outdated questions with incorrect answers
I recently came across a baffling, transient issue on one of my systems. It self resolved (or I accidentally fixed it), but I'd documented one of the symptoms of the issue while troubleshooting which ...
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Links to old Google product forums are broken
TL;DR: 3,332 posts from multiple communities have links to productforums.google.com. Source. Apparently all these links are "broken" (they are redirected to the homepage of a community ...
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Lower reputation requirement for "reopen" privilege [duplicate]
Some questions are closed by mistake and the current procedure for reopening is very... uhm... bureaucratic. Take a look at this question for example. We have 170 upvotes (the question clearly has ...
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Should outdated "Related" questions be edited to address the overarching problem? [duplicate]
I mainly contribute to ProWebmasters - Google changes all the time and I and notice a ton of questions that the correct answer to which is no longer relevant. I come across a ton of very old "...
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Can old questions and unaccepted answers be 'cleared' when the OP has been AWOL for several years?
Can't old questions with no accepted answers be 'cleared' when it is obvious there was an acceptable answer? Speaking specifically about the OP's negligence of accepting an answer, or a comment was ...
user728672
3 votes
0 answers
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In flagging dialog, IF "too old to migrate" THEN remove the tip "... or belongs on another Stack Exchange site"
I spotted a question which I think clearly belongs on another site. I tried to flag that, and one of the options was "needs improvement", which includes the situation where "This ...
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2 answers
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Why should someone edit questions from years (3 to 7 years ago, for example)? [duplicate]
What is the use/help to others in editing questions already answered years ago? It is happening on a Stack Exchange site, where a user is editing questions with accepted answers from 2015 or even ...
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2 votes
0 answers
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Strategy for old technical questions having obsolete answers [duplicate]
I have seen a lot of old questions with great old answers which are up for new answers as technology has evolved. One such example would be of answers on Android development. A lot has changed since ...
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