Timeline for What to do if you want up-to-date answers to an old question on technology
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Apr 14, 2020 at 10:43 | comment | added | YCor | I think "technology" couldn't fit as a meta tag, but as tag on the main site. The meta tag 'exact-duplicate' would fit albeit secondary (the question is whether some kind of question should be asked in spite of being possibly technically considered as duplicate). @MartinSleziak would you have some suggestions based on your knowledge of other Stackexchange sites? Along the lines of "old questions", "updating", etc. Also a tag referring generically to soft questions would be useful. | |
Apr 14, 2020 at 5:13 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I see that you have created the (technology) tag. It might be useful to create also tag-wiki or at least tag-excerpt. It might help other users to use the tag correctly. Another reason is that the tags used on only one question are automatically deleted after certain time unless they have tag-wiki. | |
Nov 3, 2019 at 15:54 | comment | added | S. Carnahan Mod | Regarding your question about "not a good fit for the site", I might ask if there is anything specifically mathematical about long-distance collaboration tools you want to consider. That is, would this question have a better home at a more generalist site like "academia"? | |
Nov 3, 2019 at 15:51 | answer | added | S. CarnahanMod | timeline score: 7 | |
Oct 13, 2019 at 15:24 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @BenWebster: Doesn't protection just mean that brand-new users ( < 10 rep) can't post answers? So new answers can still be collected (from people with >= 10 rep) even if you leave it protected. Maybe you are thinking of "locked". | |
Oct 13, 2019 at 15:21 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 5 | |
Oct 13, 2019 at 15:14 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | I think it is a bad idea when old answers about technologies that are no longer relevant are mixed in with new answers. This will be very confusing to whoever is reading the answers. Unless we actually delete older answers, it makes more sense to ask a new question. | |
Oct 11, 2019 at 17:02 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | To be more clear, I agree with Asaf that a new question with a link to the former is warranted. There should be something about the new question that says why the old answers do not suffice. Gerhard "Update Was Not Sufficiently Clear" Paseman, 2010.10.11. | |
Oct 11, 2019 at 15:37 | comment | added | Ben Webster Mod | @DavidRoberts This is not an superable barrier, but the question is now protected (by Community, so presumably this was an algorithmic decision about the question being dormant and already having lots of answers), so I would be using moderator powers to unprotect it and ask for new answers. | |
Oct 11, 2019 at 15:25 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | I think it's cleaner and neater to have new questions every now and then. If in the future we figure out that this is too much noise we can do a one-off project to merge them all into a single thread. But once a decade or so seems like the appropriate amount of time between versions of this question. | |
Oct 11, 2019 at 3:48 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I agree: update the question at the top and make it clear that newer solutions are desired. | |
Oct 10, 2019 at 14:17 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | A hundred years from now, people might be put off by eleven or more questions about collaborative technology, while some would appreciate the recorded timeline on MathOverflow. I think a new question is reasonable, especially if some contrast or differentiation can be provided in the new question. So I have no problem with an update. Gerhard "Worry Instead About Jokes Thread" Paseman, 2019.10.10. | |
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