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• I suggest relying most on interlinking questions.
• After identifying an evergreen topic, maybe a "hub-question"could be created for it, with the goal of interlinking several organic questions that deal with its premises.
• Then high quality organic questions — that have accumulated a lot of useful information — could be identified, and and marked as "Elevated", or "Staff pick" questions. These could be the ones that could be linked in the hub-questions.
  • In this case, aging would mean less of a challenge, because a question marked as Elevated would not attempt to guarantee up-to-dateness; it just testifies, that at one point in time, it was highly helpful.
  • The parent hub-question could try to offer an insight on the relative values of Elevated questions linked within: by ordering, displaying (well curated) tags, question age, average answer age, and upvotes (both question upvotes + cumulative, inclusive answers).
  • Hub-questions could organize the interlinked questions in chronological order, by default the newer being on the top. Or one could write a script that would update the ordering with the overall number of upvotes also taken in consideration.
  • Possibly, if the need arises, the number of Elevated questions linked from a hub-question could be limited, with the least valuable ones getting pushed out.
• Organic questions would also contain a link to their parent hub-question.
  • A question could contain a link to a corresponding hub-question, even if it's not elevated, and is not being included in the hub's list. This way, if someone finds a lower quality (but already hub-link equipped) question via googling, they could quickly navigate towards highly valuable information.
  • In this sense, adding the hub link to a question could be analogous to how tags are added. Regular users would be given the right to identify and carry out the association of any question with a relevant hub-page.

• I suggest relying most on interlinking questions.
• After identifying an evergreen topic, maybe a "hub-question"could be created for it, with the goal of interlinking several organic questions that deal with its premises.
• Then high quality organic questions — that have accumulated a lot of useful information — could be identified, and and marked as "Elevated", or "Staff pick" questions. These could be the ones that could be linked in the hub-questions.
  • In this case, aging would mean less of a challenge, because a question marked as Elevated would not attempt to guarantee up-to-dateness; it just testifies, that at one point in time, it was highly helpful.
  • The parent hub-question could try to offer an insight on the relative values of Elevated questions linked within: by ordering, displaying (well curated) tags, question age, average answer age, and upvotes (both question upvotes + cumulative, inclusive answers).
  • Hub-questions could organize the interlinked questions in chronological order, by default the newer being on the top. Or one could write a script that would update the ordering with the overall number of upvotes also taken in consideration.
    • Possibly, if the need arises, the number of Elevated questions linked from a hub-question could be limited, with the least valuable ones getting pushed out.
    • Alternatively, visual organization, usage of layouts, grouping, and appropriate typography (headings) could aid the overview of those lists with several items.
• Organic questions would also contain a link to their parent hub-question.
  • A question could contain a link to a corresponding hub-question, even if it's not elevated, and is not being included in the hub's list. This way, if someone finds a lower quality (but already hub-link equipped) question via googling, they could quickly navigate towards highly valuable information.
  • In this sense, adding the hub link to a question could be analogous to how tags are added. Regular users would be given the right to identify and carry out the association of any question with a relevant hub-page.

• I suggest relying most on interlinking questions.
• After identifying an evergreen topic, maybe we could create a "hub-question" for it, to interlink several organic questions that deal with its premises.
• Then we could identify high quality organic questions that have accumulated a lot of useful information, and mark them as "Elevated", or "Staff pick" questions. These could be the ones that could be linked in the hub-questions.
  • In this case, aging would mean less of a challenge, because a question marked as Elevated would not attempt to guarantee up-to-dateness; it just testifies, that at one point in time, it was highly helpful.
  • The parent hub-question could try to offer an insight on the relative values of Elevated questions linked within: by ordering, displaying (well curated) tags, age, and upvotes (both question upvotes + cumulative, inclusive answers).
  • Inside the hub-questions, we could organize the interlinked questions in chronological order, the newer being on the top. Or one could write a script that would update the ordering with the overall number of upvotes also taken in consideration.
  • Possibly, if the need arises, the number of Elevated questions linked from a hub-question could be limited, with the least valuable ones getting pushed out.
• Organic questions would also contain a link to their parent hub-question.
  • A question could contain a link to a corresponding hub-question, even if it's not elevated, and is not being included in the hub's list. This way, if someone finds a low quality (but hub-link equipped) question via googling, they could quickly navigate towards highly valuable information.
  • In this sense, adding the hub link to a question could be analogous to how tags are added. Regular users would be privileged to identify and carry out the association of any question with a relevant hub-page.

• I suggest relying most on interlinking questions.
• After identifying an evergreen topic, maybe a "hub-question"could be created for it, with the goal of interlinking several organic questions that deal with its premises.
• Then high quality organic questions — that have accumulated a lot of useful information — could be identified, and and marked as "Elevated", or "Staff pick" questions. These could be the ones that could be linked in the hub-questions.
  • In this case, aging would mean less of a challenge, because a question marked as Elevated would not attempt to guarantee up-to-dateness; it just testifies, that at one point in time, it was highly helpful.
  • The parent hub-question could try to offer an insight on the relative values of Elevated questions linked within: by ordering, displaying (well curated) tags, question age, average answer age, and upvotes (both question upvotes + cumulative, inclusive answers).
  • Hub-questions could organize the interlinked questions in chronological order, by default the newer being on the top. Or one could write a script that would update the ordering with the overall number of upvotes also taken in consideration.
  • Possibly, if the need arises, the number of Elevated questions linked from a hub-question could be limited, with the least valuable ones getting pushed out.
• Organic questions would also contain a link to their parent hub-question.
  • A question could contain a link to a corresponding hub-question, even if it's not elevated, and is not being included in the hub's list. This way, if someone finds a lower quality (but already hub-link equipped) question via googling, they could quickly navigate towards highly valuable information.
  • In this sense, adding the hub link to a question could be analogous to how tags are added. Regular users would be given the right to identify and carry out the association of any question with a relevant hub-page.

In principle, aim to achieve the goal with the least amount of least intrusive interventions, and the least amount of work. Utilize well what the site already delivers, do not try to over-sculpt / rewrite it.

I would like to suggest to be slower and more considerate on closing "duplicate content". The discipline to discourage redundant-appearing posting could stay, but the enforcement could become less harsh.

I would like to warn against trying to force several years old threads to remain alive just because they are already there and there are a lot of upvotes. Several of them may be beyond their peak usefulness. Even more of them will be so a year or two later.

In principle, aim to achieve the goal with the least amount of least intrusive interventions, and the least amount of work. Utilize well what the site already delivers instead of over-sculpting / rewriting it.

I would like to suggest to be slower and more considerate on closing "duplicate content". The discipline to discourage redundant-appearing posting could stay, but the enforcement could become more lenient.

I would advise against trying to force several years old threads to remain alive just because they are already there and there are a lot of upvotes. Several of them may be beyond their peak usefulness. Even more of them will be so a year or two later.