Timeline for List questions, fair cases of knowledge or just a waste of time?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 26, 2012 at 17:49 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | @JacobJohanEdwards Its cool man. I have removed the cw you made since I already cover the same terms you did there, feel free to vote (down or up, does not matter), hope that is ok. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 13:14 | comment | added | Jjed | @BrunoPereira Also, there is a nuclear option. If a list becomes ever becomes crazy outdated beyond repair, delete and redirect to a new iteration of the question. Ostensibly, situations requiring this sort of intervention wouldn't come up very often. I feel worrying about how much maintenance these lists would require is like worrying about puddles beside the ocean. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 13:08 | comment | added | Jjed | I would argue you're underestimating the ability of the system to scale. Looking at the review tab, I can't imagine moderator-intervention-required maintenance of lists will ever amount to much relatively. And if you receive a flag "Popular Media Player X no longer works", don't you think a quick Google would usually be enough to verify? Given the traffic these lists get (and their CW status) the community can handle most updating outside of answer deletion. It works on Wikipedia. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 13:04 | comment | added | jokerdino Mod | @Bruno in case an answer goes outdated or invalid, I believe we have an option to add a notice to the answer saying that, "At the point of writing, this answer was historically correct. But, it doesn't apply to the wider audience anymore" or some other notice along those lines. I strongly believe SE has enough features to help us manage outdated content fairly easily compared to other platforms. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 12:51 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | I would agree on What player has X or Y features questions faster than I would like plain list question, allowing those means its a a matter of time before we wont be able to handle all the posts on them and then they become what the name says, just a list of unknown status posts that cannot be all checked and verified. After that happens how are we better than a blog or any other place that post lost invalid information? | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 12:33 | comment | added | Jjed | @BrunoPereira This is exactly why we're so well equipped for this problem space. If a solution to any list question becomes invalid, it can be deleted. This isn't true for forums and old blogs. Of course, a valid question is whether this opens undue administrative burden, but highly-popular apps don't fall out of maintenance to the point of being unusuable too, too often. The bigger problem is when a new answer to such a question becomes better than old solutions, but this is already a problem with regular questions, and is not specific to lists. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 12:26 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | What will happen to those answers once a version of them does not further work and they have a zillion votes on them? When the information on those "answers" becomes wrong the content of the question becomes noise only, how can we avoid it? | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 12:21 | history | answered | Jjed | CC BY-SA 3.0 |