Questions tagged [outdated-information]
For discussion of questions and answers with outdated information, affecting quality. Not used for outdated Help or other system webpage files.
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Old And Incorrect Answers Are A Big Problem
There has been discussion about answers which have been incorrect due to language/framework updates (Introducing Outdated Answers project, and the various linked questions in that question). ...
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Making the 'Original Question' and 'Last Answered' dates easy to see instead of assuming duplicate, as tech evolves [duplicate]
There's a lot of talk about removing or penalizing questions because they are "duplicates", but there's a lot of times when a question should be reasonably reasked because the technology or ...
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35 votes
6 answers
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Outdated Answers project kicking off on Stack Overflow
As we announced on Meta Stack Overflow, we are kicking off a project to begin tackling the issue of outdated answers. That post goes into detail on the initiative and our approach. We are focusing our ...
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Tags as a proper way to indicate deprecated code in answers?
Was just in review queue and had a quite a few pop up with a tag add ember-invalid. Not sure what was "invalid" so I looked in more detail at the new tag and what it's purpose is, as I haven't seen a ...
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Deprecated posts [duplicate]
There are a lot of posts that are 'deprecated' (correct at that time, but not today). E.g., Google Maps v1 (not available these days). The problem with these is that, many developers (especially ...
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2 votes
3 answers
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Outdated questions - tagging approach [closed]
It seems to me that Stack Overflow has an infinite amount of outdated questions that pop out in Google, the SO search, etc. I frequently limit Google search to the last year to get accurate results. ...
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5 votes
2 answers
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Responding to new posts containing deprecated code
It is not uncommon for new posts to contain deprecated code: whilst there may well be good reasons for it in a legacy project, it's usually discouraged in new projects. Some users no doubt end up here ...
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How can I mark a question with an out-of-date answer?
Maybe I'm missing something but an example would be this question about rails: Rails validation over redirect with the selected answer from 2009. I'm sure there's now a better way to do this, is ...
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