Timeline for Why isn't "no longer relevant" an option for closing?
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| Sep 4, 2013 at 10:58 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Theo, do you have a specific example in mind? It's often useful to have concrete instances around; otherwise the arguments pro and con can seem to be in a vacuum and perhaps miss relevant aspects that a specific example can bring to light. | |
| Sep 3, 2013 at 23:02 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | here is an example that I would like to close as "no longer relevant" mathoverflow.net/questions/141168/… | |
| Sep 3, 2013 at 15:33 | answer | added | Tim PostStaff | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 3, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | user9072 | @TobiasKildetoft no, you understood me right or at least half-way, I think. Dan Petersen said that comment-answers are bad as then this question will (continue to) be bumped periodically. In my observation it is simply false that questions without answer get bumped. (Or it is extremely rare. Could anybody give any example of this having happened?) So, this is a non-reason. The bumping of questions with answers of nonpositive score does happen with a noticeable frequency, I sometimes find annoying, but this is not very relevant for the current discussion. | |
| Sep 3, 2013 at 14:00 | comment | added | Tobias Kildetoft | @quid I may have misread your comment then. I understood it like you distinguished between questions without answers and questions with non-upvoted answers when it comes to the frequency of bumping. I agree that the bumping is not a major issue (it is somewhat larger on MSE where the number of unanswered questions is much higher, but even there it is not something I often notice). | |
| Sep 3, 2013 at 13:50 | comment | added | user9072 | @TobiasKildetoft the argument they should not be in the unanswered list if they are actually answered in a comment, is certainly a reasonable one (of which I was not unaware). Yet it was not the one that was put forward. It is often people talk about this bumping. I replied to this at least three times already over time. But it just does not happen in practice (with any relevant frequency, possibly not at all). Still people kepp talking about it. So I keep pointing out it does not happen. | |
| Sep 3, 2013 at 10:53 | comment | added | Tobias Kildetoft | A possible solution is to emulate the attempts on MSE, where, if the comment-answer is by a single user, that user is asked (nicely, of course) if they would provide it as an answer. If this does not work or if the comment-answer is by several, someone puts a CW-answer with the answer given in comments. @quid The unanswered list also contains all those questions with no answers (being a subset of those with no upvoted answers), but whether the bumping is affected by whether an answer exists, I don't know. | |
| Sep 1, 2013 at 9:44 | comment | added | user9072 | What @DanPetersen says is AFAIK (mainly) a misconception (either this does not happen at all or at least the effect is very minimal): Questions without answer do not get bumped (or at least only extremely rarely). The questions that do get bumped are those with answer(s) that are neither accepted nor have a positive score (ie, those that are still in the 'unanswerd' list). | |
| Sep 1, 2013 at 9:11 | comment | added | András Bátkai | Unfortunately the SE system likes to see answers posted as answers, even if CW. This is also reflected in the site statistics. | |
| Sep 1, 2013 at 7:57 | comment | added | Dan Petersen | Presumably because questions that have not received an answer get periodically bumped to the top of the list of active question. Of course there are workarounds, like posting a CW answer stating that it has been answered in comments, but it's not completely satisfactory. | |
| Sep 1, 2013 at 6:41 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Do you also want to close questions as "no longer relevant" if they have been answered with answers? If bot, what's the difference? | |
| Sep 1, 2013 at 3:03 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | We do have custom off-topic reasons to close available, but this one makes little sense as a qualifier to 'off-topic'. | |
| Sep 1, 2013 at 2:32 | history | asked | Theo Johnson-Freyd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |