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Would it make sense to have a list of "Retired Questions"? - Questions asked so often and with no real change in answers that they're deleted on sight - if so, what questions would you pick? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Edit: honestly all excellent answers for a question I honestly didn't put much thought into

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[–] 24 points 5 months ago (5 children)

No, because there are always new users who haven't seen the question yet.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    As a mod ,this is my logic too. Questions aren't posted for me to read something new. Questions are posted because (hopefully) the poster wants to learn something new. And new readers might benefit as well.
    Plus, if a question were to be repeated by many users over a long period of time, it could always be stickied.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Have a pinned thread with links to those questions.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So that in the future somebody asking a question can go read five year old responses? No thanks. Why not encourage new discussion even if the question's been asked before?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    go read five year old responses

    What's keeping the responses at 5 years? If there's a new update to the established answer, the pinned one is the place to update that.

    It's okay for things to be older than 3 months.

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