Timeline for Resurrecting old questions without being flagged as duplicate
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| Jul 21, 2013 at 21:02 | comment | added | Andy Clifton | I think I would prefer the original Q&A to stay in place as being 'right' for when the question was answered. If, say, a couple of years later someone pops up and asks a new but related question, I think it would be fair to allow that new question to stay active so that (as @barbarabeeton mentioned) the new question generates traffic. If people don't have the rep to spare on a bounty, this is pretty much the only way to do it. And, please give the OP the chance to clean up the question (inbox notifications) before clobbering the question as a duplicate. | |
| Jul 20, 2013 at 19:47 | comment | added | Andy Clifton | I've added a bounty to my question. Let's see if that helps... | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 14:58 | comment | added | barbara beeton | @cgnieder -- thanks for this reminder. how many people know they can re-sort answers? (i suppose i should have, but it didn't occur to me. clearly i need to pay better attention to the fine print.) | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 14:38 | comment | added | cgnieder | @barbarabeeton “so anything new starts at the bottom until it gets voted up” -- answers can be sorted active, oldest and votes. I forgot what the default is (I guess votes). I have them always sorted active so new answers are always somewhere at the top :) | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 14:32 | comment | added | barbara beeton | i don't disagree with the intent of your answer -- avoiding duplicates and having all answers in one place is a good thing -- but maybe a few other things should be considered when the situation has changed: a newbie may well not have enough rep to offer a bounty; some participants look at "newest" questions first, rather than "active" ones, so could miss new info; really active questions tend to get long lists of answers, so anything new starts at the bottom until it gets voted up; a great answer three years ago may no longer be relevant, but won't be downvoted. how to address these concerns? | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 8:29 | history | answered | Joseph WrightMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |