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Just because the original poster may not need the answer anymore doesn't mean others who stumble across the question won't.
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Chris Maunder
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Ok, looks like at least three people disagree with me on the potential usefulness of such postings, and no one so far chimed in to support my case. I am not convinced, but at least we had a good discussion.
Does that mean we should supply answers even to old questions in case we have something valuable to add?
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Stefan_Lang wrote: Does that mean we should supply answers even to old questions in case we have something valuable to add?
I would say... yes
We even got a heads up in the S&A Forum by CP Staff to allow this and not to report valuable answers no matter how old was the post.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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But it would be nice if, when you try to add an answer to an old question, you'd get a popup stating "This is an old question, are you sure you want to add an answer to it?"
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Yes. I know of at least one forum that puts a reminder prominently on top of the edit box for entering a post in case the thread is older than two months. Something along the line of:
"This thread is older than two months. Be sure that you are really adding value before posting."
It's obvious because it shifts the edit box a little downwards, and it's nonintrusive. Also you'd notice it before spending time writing up your post, therefore I think it's better than a popup when trying to send a finished posting.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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That's a good possibility too 
@Chris-Maunder or @matthew-dennis the point already has the flag "rejected", but the debate continued... I think it is worth to consider this option
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Next question: what do you use to calculate that it's "two months old"?
- The date the question was first posted;
- The date the question was last edited;
- The date of the last answer;
- Something else?
I don't think that date of the last answer would work - that would suffer from the same problem as the revision date we currently have. Spam answers drag the question back to the top of the list and then get kicked into oblivion, but still count as the "last answer".
Personally I think the date of the last edit to the question would be the best bet. But it's still not foolproof: what if a spam answer drags the question back into the active list, and a well-meaning editor edits the question to fix the formatting, not noticing the original date? Would we need to add the warning to the edit box as well?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Spam answers drag the question back to the top of the list and then get kicked into oblivion, but still count as the "last answer".
For that the "This question has got X answers so far" or "last answer posted on XXXX-XX-XX" could help, when the info remains after a spam nuke
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That would rely on people reading the message. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes... that's true. 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Richard Deeming wrote: Personally I think the date of the last edit to the question would be the best bet.
Yes.
Richard Deeming wrote: But it's still not foolproof
Well, there is no such thing. But this is close enough.
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Indeed. To quote Douglas Adams:
Quote: “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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A mistake which can easily be rectified by spending five minutes perusing QA. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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1. I keep seeing old Q/A questions back on the front page. When I check, I find it's old, and nothing has been added to it. Except that under the original question it says something like 'update 18 hours ago' - only there is no version history, indicating there is no update at all!
Example: How Do I Replace A Word In A Text File In C++?[^] posted years ago, 'updated' 18 hours ago, but no new version, no new comment or solution.
Similar issue: A Q/A question on the front page that claims it's been 'updated' 2 days ago, but when you go investigate, the question and all solutions and comments are from 2012. There has been one update to the question in 2018 - but that is not '2 days ago'! See complexity analysis of this code[^]
Since I also keep seeing people necroing old questions by posting comments and solutions, I wonder if that 'updated' date refers to such a change that may have been deleted afterwards? If so, can the web code be changed to make sure the update time stamp gets reset as well?
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
modified 7-Nov-19 2:58am.
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It's because "old questions" are a fertile ground for spammers to post on, in the hope that we won't notice.
The spam gets rejected, but the question has had a "response" which pushes it back up the list.
I'd agree that it looks wrong ... but it's difficult to see what can be done without adding a fair number of special cases to the codebase - and I'm never that fond of those in my code!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I don't see anything hard about adjusting the date to the latest among the visible date - exactly what I was doing when looking through these Q/A postings. It doesn't matter what special case led to that state.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Actually, there were answers posted yesterday, but they were close/deleted due to poor quality.
Unless you have certain permissions, such as being an administrator, you would not see these answers.
I agree this may be confusing.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Maybe adding a "got X answers" (but only "Y" are visible) could help to spot this cases?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't mind getting confused now and then, but more than once I (and many others too) have fallen into the trap of thinking this was a new question and spent time writing an answer. Not only was that time most likely wasted, adding a new solution also makes that Q/A's date seem more legitimate than it should be, leading to further contributions and time wasted.
There's no point beating on a dead horse. And that is the reason (or one reason) why most forums and similar platforms have the option of locking a dead horse. Errrm ... thread.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Thankfully, I already had another account (that I had never used on this machine), but when I clicked to download a file, it said I had to be logged in, I clicked the github, it popped up the dialog, I logged in (declined newsletter), and then it closed... Still not logged in...
Then, I tried going to this page to report an issue, did the same process (it still asking me if it was OK to connect the accounts) and it still failing...
So, yeah, might want to fix that.
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I just tried it on Edge and it worked flawlessly. What browser are you using and are you using an Ad Blocker. It can mess things up.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Hi
I was comparing my last article Revision history and I could see different timestamps at different times on 11/3/2019.
I believe it is because of Day Light change and but not sure. Please find the screenshots and find my article also.
My Article - https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5249964/Soccer-Field-Strategy-Using-SAP-HANA-and-Amazon-Sa
Screen Shot -1
Screen Shot -2
This is happened on 11/32019 EST morning.
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Just to confirm: you took two different screenshots at different times? If so, was one before DLS and one after the DLS switch-over?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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No - Both screenshots captured after DLS.
I believe, I took both screenshots between 11/3/2019 8:00 AM EST and 11/3/2019 8:30 AM EST.
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