A front-end developer from Mar del Plata, Argentina. Passionate about CSS, accessibility, and JS. Currently working on "just a small fix", as I've been doing for the last 15 years.
True. Furthermore, and combining both your points, if you have an accepted answer and it becomes outdated overtime, you'll start receiving downvotes from people that want to mark it as outdated...
The system should allow to mark an issue as outdated, reopen the question for new answers, and show a clearly marked section with the archived answers. But no, let's punish the author for not keeping their hundreds of answers up-to-date...
This has bee discussed on SO meta and the (I believe official) answer was along the lines of "not happening, because some people use old software and old answers might still be relevant to them".
Personally, I think adding version information to both questions and answers would help here.
I had once down vote on confirmed bug, Question was regarding unexpected behavior in .Net Framework, I looked at source code, I reported the bug to MS team, they even acknowledge the bug !! And I wrote in answer specifying link of bug report, still down vote !! I lost interest in answering anything on Stack Overflow.
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True. Furthermore, and combining both your points, if you have an accepted answer and it becomes outdated overtime, you'll start receiving downvotes from people that want to mark it as outdated...
The system should allow to mark an issue as outdated, reopen the question for new answers, and show a clearly marked section with the archived answers. But no, let's punish the author for not keeping their hundreds of answers up-to-date...
This has bee discussed on SO meta and the (I believe official) answer was along the lines of "not happening, because some people use old software and old answers might still be relevant to them".
Personally, I think adding version information to both questions and answers would help here.
I had once down vote on confirmed bug, Question was regarding unexpected behavior in .Net Framework, I looked at source code, I reported the bug to MS team, they even acknowledge the bug !! And I wrote in answer specifying link of bug report, still down vote !! I lost interest in answering anything on Stack Overflow.