Timeline for Is it good practice to analyse past questions by today standards?
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| Nov 1, 2015 at 4:41 | vote | accept | Aloizio MacedoMod | ||
| Oct 24, 2015 at 18:36 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | @ArthurFischer More often than not, these questions ("What's $\int e^{\sin(\arctan(2x^2+1))} / \ln(\Gamma(x)) dx$???") have no real lasting value. They can be almost always be deleted with a nonnegative impact on the site. | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 10:29 | comment | added | user642796 Mod | @robjohn Yes, there are probably many questions for which it is incredibly difficult for someone else to add context. I would guess a sizable number of these are integral computation questions for which there is little rhyme or reason to ask them (as opposed to similar variants), except that they have been taken from somewhere else. Adding references is another way to add context, which additionally makes such questions more searchable. (I realise that hunting down the exact source may be difficult for everyone but the original asker, who is probably long gone.) | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 9:41 | comment | added | robjohn Mod | If a question is simply missing context, which is currently used as a criterion for "low quality", it is not always possible to add context (history, effort, thoughts, etc) without making edits that are considered extreme. So editing to bring an old question into appropriate shape is often not possible. | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 7:34 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | +1 Especially for this suggestion: "They can be edited to bring them into a more appropriate shape." | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 6:58 | comment | added | Gottfried William | Preferences change all the time. Only what current users value matters in selecting what additional content to take and what not to take. They consume the content. Which past content that users liked additional present content resembles should not be taken into consideration whether it is regarded as appropriate or inappropriate. But if so I suggest there is no need to lock or close old questions if this can be made clear to all users: that only what the current users consider appropriate, reflected in their votes, is appropriate. | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 5:05 | history | answered | user642796Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |