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Recently in review, there seems to be a lot of questions flagged for end of life, the issue with these flags is that when the questions were written they were ON TOPIC, this is important, old questions are not removed once a release goes EOL.

Please, please, please read the date a question was posted BEFORE you flag it as end of life, if it was on topic when it was asked it is still on topic now, context is very important here.

See this exampleSee this example, it was written on Feb 5 '12 at 13:25 and is about 11.10 so it is on topic in the context of when it was written, so it stays and should not be flagged.

Sorry if this seem a bit of a rant but is is very frustrating to have to review these flags when the information is right there on the page, just look above the posters user name, thanks.

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Recently in review, there seems to be a lot of questions flagged for end of life, the issue with these flags is that when the questions were written they were ON TOPIC, this is important, old questions are not removed once a release goes EOL.

Please, please, please read the date a question was posted BEFORE you flag it as end of life, if it was on topic when it was asked it is still on topic now, context is very important here.

See this example, it was written on Feb 5 '12 at 13:25 and is about 11.10 so it is on topic in the context of when it was written, so it stays and should not be flagged.

Sorry if this seem a bit of a rant but is is very frustrating to have to review these flags when the information is right there on the page, just look above the posters user name, thanks.

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Recently in review, there seems to be a lot of questions flagged for end of life, the issue with these flags is that when the questions were written they were ON TOPIC, this is important, old questions are not removed once a release goes EOL.

Please, please, please read the date a question was posted BEFORE you flag it as end of life, if it was on topic when it was asked it is still on topic now, context is very important here.

See this example, it was written on Feb 5 '12 at 13:25 and is about 11.10 so it is on topic in the context of when it was written, so it stays and should not be flagged.

Sorry if this seem a bit of a rant but is is very frustrating to have to review these flags when the information is right there on the page, just look above the posters user name, thanks.

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A note on flagging end of life questions

Recently in review, there seems to be a lot of questions flagged for end of life, the issue with these flags is that when the questions were written they were ON TOPIC, this is important, old questions are not removed once a release goes EOL.

Please, please, please read the date a question was posted BEFORE you flag it as end of life, if it was on topic when it was asked it is still on topic now, context is very important here.

See this example, it was written on Feb 5 '12 at 13:25 and is about 11.10 so it is on topic in the context of when it was written, so it stays and should not be flagged.

Sorry if this seem a bit of a rant but is is very frustrating to have to review these flags when the information is right there on the page, just look above the posters user name, thanks.

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