Timeline for Should questions be marked as duplicates when versions have changed drastically over many years?
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| Feb 4, 2019 at 21:47 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | Can you clarify this at all? If I became sure of what you intended, I would make an edit to your question (of course you could roll the edit back). I might also post an answer advocating closing old questions against new ones in some cases as I did here in answer to a related question. | |
| Feb 4, 2019 at 21:43 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | Sorry for my late arrival. I think this question is an important one, but I find it a little unclear (I'm tired, but this is my second attempt to read the question and its answer) what exactly is being asked. I think you are asking whether old questions should be closed against new ones in order to draw visitors to up-to-date information. Is that correct? Your title here suggests something different to me - whether new questions should be closed against old ones despite version differences. It seems to me that the answer addresses that question and not the question I think you intended... | |
| Feb 4, 2019 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/AskUbuntu/status/1092392511019069441 | ||
| Jan 30, 2019 at 12:53 | comment | added | Sampo Sarrala | If another versions requires completely different answers then we should add tags for major s/w versions? | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 14:24 | comment | added | pomsky | I understood that, my comment was for the "its main accepted answer" part. Often users, especially newcomers don't realise that and complain that the duplicate suggestion doesn't work without referring to other answers. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 14:21 | history | edited | pomsky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
it's = "it is"
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| Jan 29, 2019 at 13:58 | comment | added | Kristopher Ives | @pomsky Thanks. I understand that OP's accepted answer isn't the "right" one. What I'm trying to figure out is what's best for Ask Ubuntu, voting up the Gnome 2 answer, Gnome 3 answer, both? Should the question title be modified and the version of Gnome 2 inferred so the question becomes "How do I do XYZ in Gnome 2?" and if not should we be marking "How do I do XYZ in Gnome 3?" questions as a duplicate? | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 13:54 | history | edited | Kristopher Ives | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 29, 2019 at 13:48 | comment | added | pomsky | Also "accepted" answer merely means it's the answer that OP found useful, it's not the answer to the question. Often other answers are more useful to others than the accepted one. Even OP is allowed to change the accepted answer. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 12:59 | answer | added | Kulfy | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 12:50 | comment | added | TheWanderer | Why should the old question be removed? People do still use GNOME 2 and its derivatives. And as you said, people have answered the old keyring question with updated answers. That's how it's supposed to work. It would get kind of messy having a different Q&A for each applicable version of some software. If all the answers are in one place, and they say which version they're for, it's much easier to link someone to that post than to ask for which version they're using and then properly link. | |
| Jan 29, 2019 at 11:03 | history | asked | Kristopher Ives | CC BY-SA 4.0 |